Judge rules in Smith body dispute
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The guardian of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter is awarded custody of the ex-model's body.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - Lawyers for former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend and her mother jousted over her corpse on Tuesday, making little headway in legal skirmishing over where she should be buried.
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A judge accepts Michael Jackson's challenge to claims that a woman died after making way for him in hospital.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A judge on Monday declined to reconsider his ruling over who controls where Anna Nicole Smith should be buried, as her estranged mother turned to an appeals court for help getting custody of the starlet's body.
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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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The county medical examiner testified Thursday that the body of Anna Nicole Smith was "under refrigeration and not significantly damaged," but added, "any further delay might reach a point when she would be damaged."
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Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas, alongside her 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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A Florida appeals court issued a stay Monday in the dispute over Anna Nicole Smith's body, ruling that her remains cannot be moved to the Bahamas until the judges hear a challenge from the starlet's estranged mother.
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From the state that brought you the hanging chad, now comes the crying judge. Some members of the bar and other court-watchers are cringing over the way Judge Larry Seidlin wept &#151; no, sobbed &#151; on live, national TV as he announced a ruling Thursday in the dispute over where Anna Nicole Smith should be buried.
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A judge ruled Wednesday that a hospital can remove a car accident victim from life support against his family's wishes, an official said.
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A Florida court upholds a ruling that ex-Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith should be buried in the Bahamas.
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The legal entanglements for former Playboy Playmate and diet diva Anna Nicole Smith did not end with her death on Thursday.
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The drawn-out court battle over what to do with Anna Nicole Smith's body has a new sense of urgency: the starlet's remains are decomposing more quickly than expected and a public viewing could be in danger.
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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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By MICHAEL MELIA NASSAU, Bahamas - The examiner who performed a second autopsy Sunday on Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son said he could not yet determine the cause of death. Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathologist who gained fame as a critic of the government's probe into John F.
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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over the use of organ donor body parts for research and purposes other than transplantation, and officials say they plan to revise the state's consent procedure as a result.
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Anna Nicole Smith's body was ordered Wednesday to be held for DNA testing in the paternity dispute involving the former Playboy Playmate's partner, her 5-month old daughter and another man, a judge ruled.