A former Georgia probate judge is facing bribery and civil rights violation charges alleging that he solicited sexual favors in exchange for reduced charges from three women.
Read moreDuring her time as South Dakota’s lone congresswoman, Rep. Kristi Noem has long told a tale about the Internal Revenue Service’s crushing “death tax” on her farming and ranching family shortly after her father’s untimely death. But court documents suggest Noem’s story is less a tale of the taxman cometh, and more about bungled estate planning.
Read moreItaly’s Senate gave final approval Thursday to a law allowing Italians to write living wills and refuse artificial nutrition and hydration, the latest step in the Roman Catholic nation’s long-running and agonizing debate over euthanasia and end-of-life issues.
Read moreThe sons of legendary concert promoter Bill Graham cannot prove their rights to concert posters and other San Francisco Bay Area rock memorabilia they say they were swindled out of by Graham’s estate executor, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit Court on Thursday waded into an ongoing family feud over the works of John Steinbeck, ruling the celebrated author’s sons and a daughter-in-law have no right to stop movie adaptations of his literary work.
Read moreStoried concert promoter Bill Graham died in 1991, but his sons are still locked in a bitter legal fight with the executor of his estate over his rock memorabilia, including hundreds of concert posters and scrapbooks.
Read moreThe grandson of Maya Angelou is trying to wrest control of the late poet’s intellectual property from his father and has bankrupted a company the two set up to manage her legacy, the father claims in a state court lawsuit filed Monday.
Read moreA federal jury has awarded over $13 million to John Steinbeck’s step-daughter on claims that the author’s late son and widow interfered in movie adaptations of two of his most famous novels.
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A state court judge Monday refused to toss the claims of Sumner Redstone’s ex-girlfriend, who says his daughter Shari Redstone prevented her from getting her share of the media mogul’s estate.
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The son of soul singer Barry White is suing the singer’s former wife saying he is nearly homeless and destitute because she refused to give him a fair share of his father’s estate.
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