An Orange County prosecutor told a jury yesterday that Brittany Schuetz ignored her friends warnings not to drink and drive when she got into her car and later crashed into the car of April Whang, killing her instantly. Schuetz had been drinking at a house party in Sherman Oaks and was returned to ...

While the coroner has yet to release a final cause of death, Murphy’s widower claims he has no doubt her fateful heart attack on December 20 was caused by stress over being fired from Happy [...]

* As we noted last night, Supreme Court bashing in a State of the Union address is a rare thing. Though Obama is following in Roosevelt's footsteps once again. [BLT] * Linda Greenhouse's take on Justice Alito's reaction to the SotU. [New York Times] * Florida Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein pleaded ...

January 25, 2010 That is what U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) said in a press release today. She and U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) will introduce the Tanning Bed Cancer Control Act before Congress tomorrow, which will address tanning bed safety by expanding U.S. Food and Drug Administr ...

Multiple drunken driving arrests or numerous DWI convictions can be devastating to a New Jersey resident's driving record, much less a person's life. When a traffic fatality is involved, the legal situation can become very serious very quickly. As a New Jersey drunk driving defense attorney, I and m ...

Barry D. Goldberg and Peter A. Nicholson of the Chicago law firm of Goldberg & Goldberg have settled a wrongful death case on behalf of the Estate of Patricia Quirk against Little Company of Mary Hospital, Radiation Oncology, S.C. and Dr. Vera Petras for $7.5 million. Quirk v. Little Company of Mary ...

Everyone was shocked when actress Brittany Murphy died suddenly at age 32 on December 20th, 2009. She left behind a husband, Simon Monjack, of two and a half years and a mother with whom she was very close. Reportedly, her mother lived with Murphy and her husband the last few years. Only one day aft ...

from the , which is headlined "Charlie Sheen's 1996 domestic violence incident in L.A. could become factor in new case," should prompt fans of "Two and a Half Men" to worry about the fate of the show's star.  Here are the details:  This article Los Angeles Times ...

As we ended 2009 we saw the clear emergence of the real time web as a distinct trend. I just wish the first big tests of it weren't celebrity deaths like Michael Jackson, Ted Kennedy and Brittany Murphy. Anyway, it seems that time expectations will compress even more through the next decade. I rec ...

There's a sad tradition of looking back at the end of the year to see the toll that time has taken of our friends and heroes.  We may never had met some of those we most admired, may never have stood in the same place with them.  But we shared time with them.  Shared an era.  Som ...