J. Howard Marshall

The will of Anna Nicole Smith, aka Vickie Lynn Marshall, is now available. You can check it out here (PDF). We haven’t read it yet; right now we’re in another panel at the NYLS conference. But we welcome your thoughts on it in the comments to this post. To get things started, the CNN article […]

As we mentioned yesterday, victorious Supreme Court litigant Anna Nicole Smith has passed away. She was 39, and the circumstances of her death are still being investigated. Here were some of your comments: “ANS, we’ll miss you. We celebrate your reunion with your son, and we mourn your separation from your newborn daughter. Thanks for […]

Please observe a moment of silence for one of the most celebrated litigants in the history of the Supreme Court. Anna Nicole Smith was a fascinating personality, and one of the great beauties of our time. From the Associated Press: Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian […]

* Judge Manuel Real (C.D. Cal.) defends himself against impeachment charges before the Senate. The accusation that he made rulings “to benefit an attractive female” is one that the 82-year-old jurist “find[s] repugnant, particularly at my age.” [Los Angeles Times] (But who says old guys can’t be horndogs? See, e.g., J. Howard Marshall, the late […]