CA Legal Expert Says Despite Legal Wrangling, Result Is Appropriate LOS ANGELES, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Supreme Court denied Howard K.

NEW YORK, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The following was released today by legal expert and media commentator Matt Semino: Today, a Los Angeles jury reached a verdict on the Anna Nicole Smith Drug trial. After two weeks of deliberations, the jury found Howard K.

Legal Expert Calls Drug Facilitation a Growing Problem in Hollywood LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tomorrow marks the start of criminal proceedings against lawyer and former companion of Anna Nicole Smith, Howard K. Stern. Stern, along with co-defendants Drs.

A federal judge in New York has ruled that Howard Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's companion when she died in 2007, can sue a writer for libel. Stern is suing former TV journalist Rita Cosby for $60 million, charging that more than a dozen passages in her best seller, Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death, damaged his reputation, the New York Daily News reported Thursday. In his ruling allowing a portion of Stern's libel suit proceed, federal Judge Denny Chin rejected Cosby's argument that Stern's reputation made him libel-proof. Stern cites a passage in which Cosby wrote that Smith regularly watched a video of Stern engaging in sexual activities with Larry Birkhead, the father of Smith's daughter.

The late Anna Nicole Smith's companion Howard K.