Florida judge avoids decision on Anna Nicole burial
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - A Florida judge on Thursday ordered that the body of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith be handed into the custody of the court-appointed guardian of her 5-month-old baby daughter.
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A federal appeals court Thursday threw out a judge's ruling that awarded &#36;88.5 million to former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith from the estate of her late husband, an oil tycoon who died at age 90 just over a year after they wed.
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With a feud over Anna Nicole Smith's resting place resolved by a Florida court, judges in the Bahamas were preparing to take up disputes over custody of the late model's 5-month-old daughter and ownership of her waterfront residence.
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A judge on Tuesday denied the Federal Election Commission's request that she temporarily set aside a ruling striking down several government rules on political fund raising.
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A judge has denied a bid to halt the execution scheduled this coming week of convicted cop killer Troy Anthony Davis, refusing to hear evidence the defense says would show he is innocent and identify another man as the killer.
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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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By MATT SEDENSKY FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas, alongside her dead son, it was announced Thursday after a tearful judge left the decision up to the attorney for the model's baby daughter.
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Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother asked a Florida appeals court on Monday to overturn last week's court ruling that would allow the burial of the former Playboy Playmate in the Bahamas.
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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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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Gov. Jeb Bush to reconsider its decision striking down a state law designed to save the life of a severely brain-damaged woman.
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A Florida appeals court suspended on  Monday a lower court ruling that would have allowed the burial  of former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith in the Bahamas, as  the battle over her baby shifted to the Bahamian capital.
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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 turned aside one of Saddam Hussein's lawyers who wants an American court to step in and issue a stay of execution.
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By MATT SEDENSKY FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother told a judge Wednesday she wants to exhume her grandson in the Bahamas and bring his body to Texas to be buried along with his starlet-mother in her native state. Smith's longtime companion, Howard K.
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A judge Monday denied a motion for a delay in the child molestation case against Michael Jackson, clearing the way for the trial's Jan. 31 start.
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A Florida appeals court suspended on Monday a lower court ruling that would have allowed the burial of former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith in the Bahamas, as the battle over her baby shifted to the Bahamian capital.
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A judge froze a half-million-dollar account Thursday until it's decided whether the money belongs to Larry Birkhead or his ex-lawyer in the Anna Nicole Smith paternity case.