in the Bahamas after the burial.
Saturday, March 3, 2007
The Marshall's Won't Settle?
While Ms. Smith got nothing in Texas, a federal court in California awarded her $474 million in a complicated legal twist that began after she declared bankruptcy. That was later overturned.Then in March, the U.S. Supreme Court put the case back on the table. The justices ruled that federal courts could have jurisdiction and told the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its merits.
Mr. Hardin said the court soon will be notified that Elaine Marshall is now the estate representative.
And that could create the chance of a settlement, said Kent L. Richland, one of Ms. Smith's attorneys.
"Certainly, there is a fact that there will be a change in personalities involved," he said. "That opens up the possibility there will be a different attitude. Assets change hands. That is often a time when people want to access what is in their best interest."
Ms. Smith declined to comment about the case, and J. Howard III did not return messages asking for comment. But Pierce Marshall's family members say they won't settle. "Nothing has changed from the family's standpoint as to how this case should end up and we will handle it as Pierce did, in his honor," they wrote.
Nothing would please Lynn Barker more. A bartender from Baytown and a juror in the original state trial, she said she became very attached to Mr. Marshall.
"I cried for two days when I heard he died. Let everybody know he was a good man. He should have lived a long time. People need to know we lost a very valuable part of our society," she said. "Everybody's all, 'Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole.'"
Copyrighted
Beautiful - Young - Rich - Gone - Somber
No longer mourn for me when I am deadThen you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if, I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse.
But let your love even with my life decay,
Lest the wise world should look into your moan
And mock you with me after I am gone.
~Shakespeare~
Ceremony Fit For A Queen
Anna Nicole Smith — dressed in a designer gown, her coffin covered in a pink rhinestone-studded blanket — was buried in an extravagant funeral, but the fight over her baby and a potential large inheritance remains. More Source:03/03/2007
By BEN FOX /Associated Press
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