Celebrities in the U.S. Supreme Court

Robert L. Moshman, Esq., Celeb Win Streak at Top Court, Est. Analyst (Dec. 2007), has noticed that for two years in a row celebrities have frequented the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 2006, it was Anna Nicole Smith who got the good news that she could continue with her appeal to recover a portion of the estate of oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall.

This year, the Court’s refusal to look at an appeal from the Court of Appeals means that actress Liz Taylor will be able to keep a valuable painting.

In 1963, Liz Taylor purchased Van Gogh’s 1889 painting[.]*** Some time later, it was asserted that the painting had been sold under duress in 1939 by a woman who was forced to flee Nazi Germany.***