Florida judge disinclined to take on Anna Nicole case
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - A Florida judge added more uncertainty to the paternity battle over Anna Nicole Smith's baby on Friday when he said he wasn't sure he had jurisdiction over the case.
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Larry Seidlin, the wisecracking judge who presided in the dispute over Anna Nicole Smith's remains and was lampooned for his sobbing announcement of the verdict, will resign next month, a court spokesman said Tuesday.
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A judge in Florida  made public Anna Nicole Smith's 5-year-old will on Friday and  gave the go-ahead for the former Playboy playmate to be  embalmed.
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SAN FRANCISCO A federal judge presiding over a steroids distribution case is refusing to toss it out. But the judge in San Francisco ruled three defendants can try to convince her that statements made to investigators
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The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former White House budget director David A. Stockman yesterday rejected a bid to remove the lead prosecutor.
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LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court today threw out a judge&#39;s ruling that awarded $88.5 million to former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith from the estate of her late husband, a Houston oil tycoon who died at age 90 just over a year after they wed.
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A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday lifted an order that kept former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith's body from being buried, saying that sufficient DNA required for a legal battle over her infant daughter was obtained during the autopsy.
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A Los Angeles judge on Friday refused to order an emergency DNA test on the remains of Anna Nicole Smith but ordered that her body be preserved until a February 20 hearing in the paternity case surrounding her baby.
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against a state judge who barred anyone from saying "rape" or "victim" during a criminal trial, ruling Tuesday that the accuser failed to prove that he should intervene.
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A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday lifted an order that kept Anna Nicole Smith's body from being buried, saying that enough DNA required for a legal battle over her infant daughter was obtained during Smith's autopsy.
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A Florida judge on Wednesday rejected a  bid by a former boyfriend of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith to  have a Florida court decide a paternity fight over Smith's  5-month-old baby daughter, Dannielynn, a court official said.
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A federal judge said that tribunals like the one the suspect is facing are contrary to principles of American justice.
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A pathologist probing the death of model Anna Nicole Smith's son said on Thursday that since the cause has been found, the case can be closed without holding a planned inquest in the Bahamas next month.
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A U.S. court on Wednesday rejected a bid by the estranged mother of dead Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith to halt her burial in the Bahamas, clearing the way for an end to a battle over the decomposing body.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Citing lack of bed space, a judge on Tuesday refused to find the state human services agency in contempt of court for failing to find room in state psychiatric hospitals for mentally incompetent jail inmates.
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The judge presiding over the case of accused Atlanta courthouse shooter Brian Nichols recused himself from the case Wednesday.
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In a sign of growing disarray among the jury considering the double-murder case against Scott Peterson, the judge dismissed the foreman on Wednesday, a day after another juror was removed midway through deliberations.