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JUDGE TOSSES KEVORKIAN ESTATE'S MICH. ART SUIT
The Associated Press State & Local Wire
January 18, 2012 Wednesday 5:49 PM GMT
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed in suburban Detroit by the
estate of Dr. Jack Kevorkian against a Massachusetts museum that
refused to return 17 of his paintings.
The Detroit News and The Oakland Press of Pontiac report the dispute
likely will be heard in federal court in Massachusetts following
Oakland County Circuit Judge Martha Anderson's decision Wednesday.
Anderson said the issue should be decided in Massachusetts because
the museum first sued there last year.
That suit was filed ahead of a New York auction.
The Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, Mass.,
claims Kevorkian donated the art in 1999. But the estate of the
assisted-suicide advocate says he loaned it to the museum for an
exhibit and subsequent storage.
Kevorkian died in June at age 83.
From: Baghdasarian
The Associated Press State & Local Wire
January 18, 2012 Wednesday 5:49 PM GMT
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed in suburban Detroit by the
estate of Dr. Jack Kevorkian against a Massachusetts museum that
refused to return 17 of his paintings.
The Detroit News and The Oakland Press of Pontiac report the dispute
likely will be heard in federal court in Massachusetts following
Oakland County Circuit Judge Martha Anderson's decision Wednesday.
Anderson said the issue should be decided in Massachusetts because
the museum first sued there last year.
That suit was filed ahead of a New York auction.
The Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, Mass.,
claims Kevorkian donated the art in 1999. But the estate of the
assisted-suicide advocate says he loaned it to the museum for an
exhibit and subsequent storage.
Kevorkian died in June at age 83.
From: Baghdasarian