Re: Anna Nicole's Case Goes to Supreme Court

Now, that's entertainment!

Old Salt card carrying Curmudgeon wrote: 
	This is no joke.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court shed its staid image Tuesday,
giving stripper-turned Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith a new chance at
a piece of the fortune of her 90-year-old late husband.

The court said it would hear arguments early next year as part of
Smith's effort to collect as much as $474 million from the estate of
J. Howard Marshall II. The oil tycoon married her in 1994 when he was
89 and she was 26.

The case promises to be the sexiest of the nine-month term which
begins next week.

"She's very excited. She will be attending arguments, there's no
question about that," Smith's lawyer, Howard K. Stern, said in a
telephone interview from Vermont where the television reality star is
filming a movie.

At issue for the court is a relatively mundane technical issue: when
may federal courts hear claims that are also involved state probate
proceedings. But the facts are eye-catching.

The 1993 Playmate of the Year and self-described "blonde bombshell"
claims her husband promised her millions but that his scheming son cut
her out of the estate.

The son, E. Pierce Marshall, said that a Texas court had found Smith's
claim frivolous and that a jury determined he did nothing wrong. "This
is one small step in a process and we intend to prevail so that my
father's wishes can be honored," he said in a statement.

His father, one of Texas' wealthiest men, died in 1995, setting off a
nasty legal fight.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050928/D8CT1LJG3.html 

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