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 former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith's baby on Friday when he said he wasn't sure he had jurisdiction over the case.
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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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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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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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The same federal judge who threw out Georgia&#039;s voter ID law last year blocked the state Wednesday from enforcing its revised law during this year&#039;s elections.
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A judge who briefly heard arguments in cases after Anna Nicole Smith's death has announced his retirement, not long after he pleaded not guilty to smoking marijuana in a city park.
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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 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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DANIA BEACH, Florida  - A California judge on Friday refused to order an emergency DNA test on the remains of former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith but ordered her body preserved until a February 20 hearing in the paternity case surrounding her baby.
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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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Lawyers for Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend asked a judge Friday to step into the paternity case over the former Playboy Playmate's baby, but the judge said he doubted he had that authority.
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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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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 in the Kobe Bryant rape case on Tuesday sharply restricted how the news media may cover the trial using television and still cameras, saying he was worried too much exposure could threaten the fairness of the proceedings.
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Judges on both coasts weighed in Wednesday on what to do with Anna Nicole Smith's remains amid the custody dispute over her infant daughter, moving closer to releasing the former Playboy Playmate's body for burial.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  - 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.
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By MATT SEDENSKY FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The melodramatic legal fallout from Anna Nicole Smith's death shifted Friday from where to bury the former Playboy Playmate to who gets custody of her baby, who could inherit millions.