Here's four reasons why: First, Justice Roberts' masterfully written majority opinion (joined by Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito) declared Pierce Marshall's estate the final victor and blew poor Anna Nicole Smith's estate completely out of the water. [read post]

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction aims to protect children from being wrongfully removal or retained in a country other than their own and to establish procedures to ensure their prompt return to their country of habitual residence. [read post]