Anna Nicole Smith Is Bahamas-Bound
Judge Larry Seidlin has awarded custody of Anna Nicole Smith's (rapidly decomposing) body to attorney Richard Milstein, guardian for Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. From the AP:
Blubbering as he announced his ruling, a judge said Thursday he hopes Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas, but he left the decision up to the guardian of her baby daughter....The judge choked up frequently and wept as he explained his decision.
Now will someone please give Larry Seidlin his own TV show, so real-life litigants don't have to put up with him? If breaking down on camera isn't a recipe for a successful television career, we don't know what is. Just ask Anderson Cooper.
Update: It looks like Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas, next to her son Daniel Smith. From TMZ.com:
After shredding each other for the past four days, Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead simultaneously announced, without any seeming anger toward each other, that Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas.The announcement came just a few minutes after Judge Larry Seidlin decided that Dannielynn's court-appointed guardian should mediate the dispute.
The wishes of Stern and Birkhead are relevant because Milstein was directed to make his decision about where to bury Anna Nicole Smith in consultation with the parties to the case.
Judge Gives Smith’s Body to Baby’s Guardian [Associated Press]
Hatchet to Be Buried With Anna? [TMZ.com]
Comments
*epiphany* Maybe if I cry on an interview I can get a job! But I can't get an interview. I know, I'll cry all over the resume before sending it out!
*Off to hustle his way into a job*
Posted by: Loyola 2L | February 22, 2007 05:05 PM
Some interesting Anna Nicole commentary:
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/02/anna_nicole_smi.html
and
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2007/02/two_law_profs_o.html
Posted by: anon | February 22, 2007 05:19 PM
Excuse me Lat - but
Anderson Cooper, a fellow gay, happens to visit some of the most depressing, ravaged, and horrifying regions of the world and covers some of the biggest disasters that have befallen our planet [am I being dramatic yet?], including the Bush administration - which invaded the wrong country and then proceeded to screw it up every step of the way.
Don't discredit Cooper just because he does not kiss neocon butt [like you?]
Posted by: Anonymous | February 22, 2007 05:42 PM
So do most other leading television journalists (e.g., Christiane Amanpour). But do you see them shedding tears every time they're on location?
Posted by: Anonymous | February 22, 2007 06:06 PM
6:06,
Cooper does not shed tears each time he is on location. In fact - I have never seen him shed tears.
Lat is discrediting him because the guy does not cow tow to a bunch of old neocon farts who have no business running [or should I say ruining] our Country.
Cheney and Rumsfeld are exactly the type that would have put Japanese Americans in camps during WWII.
And maybe gone far beyond that.
A country does not destroy its values in the name of protecting them.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 22, 2007 06:18 PM
Seidlin is a state court judge, so I guess we shouldn't have expected much. Choking up and weeping over Anna Nicole... talk about icky!
Posted by: Craig C. | February 22, 2007 08:21 PM
This guy is the perfect argument against cameras in the court room. I doubt such asshattery would be indulged if it was away from the public eye.
Judges get puffed up even when it's just the printed press around.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 22, 2007 09:22 PM
He transferred to the U!
He spent two years at St. John's University Law School, then moved to Florida in 1974. He got his law degree from the University of Miami.
Posted by: huh? | February 22, 2007 10:44 PM