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From Connecticut

Governor, please make Connecticut safe for elders My elder mother, Kingsley Hubby, residing in CT, has been subjected to state sanctioned exploitation, which is common in Connecticut, documented in Ron Winter’s book, Granny Snatching. New Yorker, Dan Gross, drove to CT for a visit, became sick and was hospitalized and imprisoned in a nursing home, Keep Reading…

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Defense lawyers complain judges rarely punished (TX)

Six months after admitting in a public courtroom that he scratched up a neighbor’s car, former Houston Judge Woody Densen was disciplined by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. It was a warning. The wrist slap, months after Densen pleaded guilty to the crime, illustrates the inertia and toothless sanctions that the agency policing the state’s Keep Reading…

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For sale: Huguette Clark’s NYC apartment

Check out this You can move into heiress Huguette Clark’s building, for $25 million article from Bill Dedman.  It’s an interesting history of Clark’s apartment building, but it also contains a great chronology of links on his coverage of the controversy surrounding the heiress’ estate.

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Judiciary reform ahead for Tennessee?

A couple of recent posts from Impeachrandykennedy’s Blog discuss probate-oriented action before the Tennessee legislature.  Check out Pauper v. Probate: Kennedy’s Court Under Scrutiny-AGAIN! and Pauper v. Probate: Smoke and Mirrors Proposed Legislation for Danny Tate’s perspective on his state’s legislative front.

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Judge reappoints co-trustees of Rosa Parks estate (MI)

A Wayne County judge today put Elaine Steele and Adam Shakoor back in charge of the estate of Rosa Parks, the late civil rights icon. Probate Judge Freddie Burton Jr. reappointed the pair as co-trustee’s of Parks’ estate at the behest of the Michigan Supreme Court, which twice ordered him in recent weeks to reinstate the Keep Reading…

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