• Recent Obituaries - Legal



  • Michelle Triola Marvin (1933 - 2009)

    Michelle Triola Marvin

    By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES Michelle Triola Marvin, who waged a landmark palimony case against former lover actor Lee Marvin of "The Dirty Dozen" fame, died Friday at age 76. She underwent surgery for lung cancer last year and died at the Malibu home of actor Dick Van Dyke, her partner of 30 years, said family spokesman Bob Palmer. Michelle Marvin's birth...

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  • John O'Quinn (2009)

    John  O'Quinn

    HOUSTON (AP) - Flamboyant lawyer John O'Quinn, who won billions in verdicts against makers of breast implants, pharmaceuticals and tobacco products, died Thursday in a traffic wreck. He was 68. O'Quinn and a passenger were killed when police say the sport-utility vehicle he was driving skidded across the median of a rain-slicked parkway just outside downtown Houston, went airborne...

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  • Paul Bloom (2009)

    Paul  Bloom

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Paul Bloom, a longtime New Mexico water rights attorney who served as a special counsel in the Energy Department under President Jimmy Carter, died Oct. 9 of pancreatic cancer in Chevy Chase, Md., his daughter, Ester Bloom, said. He was 70. Paul Bloom worked at New Mexico's Office of the State Engineer for about a dozen years before moving to Washington to work...

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  • Raymond Brown, 94 (1915 - 2009)

    Raymond  Brown

    NEWARK, N.J. (Associated Press) - Raymond A. Brown, a veteran New Jersey defense lawyer whose high-profile clients included former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, has died. He was 94. Brown, a Montclair resident, died Friday from pulmonary disease, said his son and law partner Ray Brown Jr. He had practiced law for 59 years and had continued working until March. Carter was convicted...

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  • Judge Jerry Buchmeyer (1933 - 2009)

    Judge Jerry  Buchmeyer

    DALLAS (Associated Press) - Retired U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer, who spent nearly 30 years on the federal bench and presided over a Dallas housing discrimination case, died Monday. He was 76. Buchmeyer, who had been in declining health, died in a San Marcos nursing home, his son Jon Paul Buchmeyer said by phone Tuesday. Jerry Buchmeyer was perhaps best-known for his handling of a...

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