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STERN v. MARSHALL

No. 10-179.

131 S.Ct. 2594 (2011)

564 U.S. 462

180 L.Ed.2d 475

Howard K. STERN, Executor of the Estate of Vickie Lynn Marshall, Petitioner, v. Elaine T. MARSHALL, Executrix of the Estate of E. Pierce Marshall.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 23, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent L. Richland , Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.

Malcolm L. Stewart , for United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the Petitioner.

Roy T. Engler, Jr. , Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Roy T. Englert, Jr. , Robbins, Russeh, Englert, Orseck, Untreiner & Sauber LLP, Washington, DC, G. Eric Brunstad, Jr., Collin O'Connor Udell , Matthew J. Delude , Dechert LLP, Hartford, CT, Seth P. Waxman , Craig Goldblatt , Danielle Spinelli , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP, Washington, DC, Kenneth N. Klee , Daniel J. Bussel , Whitman L. Holt , Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Don Jackson , Ware, Jackson, Lee & Chambers, LLP, Houston, TX, Sanford Svetcov , Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Francisco, CA, Joseph A. Eisenberg , Julia J. Rider , Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent.

Philip W. Boesch, Jr. , The Boesch Law Group, Santa Monica, California, Bruce S. Ross , Vivian L. Thoreen , Holland & Knight LLP, Los Angeles, California, Kent L. Richland , Alan Diamond , Edward L. Xanders , Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Petitioner Howard K. Stern, Executor of the Estate of Vickie Lynn Marshall.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This "suit has, in course of time, become so complicated, that ... no two ... lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause: innumerable young people have married into it;" and, sadly, the original parties "have died out of it." A "long procession of [judges] has come in and gone out" during that...

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