Nicole Brown Simpson

A state appeals court Tuesday threw out a judge's decision giving O.J. Simpson full custody of his two children, reopening the bitter legal battle with his former in-laws, Louis and Juditha Brown. In a scathing ruling, the 4th District Court of Appeals found that Orange County Superior Court Judge Nancy Wieben Stock erred by preventing Brown's attorneys from introducing evidence that Simpson allegedly beat and later murdered his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.

A state appeals court on Tuesday threw out a judge's decision giving O.J. Simpson full custody of his two children, saying attorneys should have been allowed to introduce civil trial evidence in the slaying of his ex-wife.

A Santa Monica judge appointed a receiver Tuesday to auction off O.J. Simpson's seized assets and split the money between the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman, an attorney said. The sale of Simpson's Heisman trophy, other sports memorabilia and furniture is tentatively set for February, said Gary Caris, a lawyer for the Goldman family. Superior Court Judge David Perez granted a request to approve Claremont attorney Michael Myers as the receiver, Caris said.

A hearing is scheduled next week to hear Louis and Juditha Brown's appeal for custody of their grandchildren, the son and daughter of O.J. Simpson. Orange County Superior Court Judge Nancy Wieben Stock ruled in December 1996 that Simpson should have full custody of Sydney and Justin. The judge granted the Browns visitation rights and asked attorneys for both sides to reach an agreement on a visitation schedule.

Attorneys for O.J. Simpson have submitted a brief to the state Court of Appeal in Los Angeles seeking a reversal of last year's $33.5-million wrongful death verdict. The brief pushes the case into its next phase, one in which the appellate court must determine whether Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki erred in his handling of the civil trial. In the 96-page brief, Simpson attorneys Robert C.

Trouble follows Joe Bosco around like an old hunting dog. I've never known anyone with troubles quite like those that have afflicted Bosco, an author I met when we were both covering the O.J. Simpson trial. There were the physical afflictions--a dislocated shoulder suffered in an after-hours bar fight over the Simpson case and the broken neck he suffered when he dove into the shallow end of a swimming pool during a Fourth of July party. Added to these were Bosco's legal troubles.

The legal representative of O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson's children has settled a lawsuit against the slain woman's parents, ending a dispute over whether the children were entitled to more than $260,000 the Browns allegedly made from the sale of their daughter's belongings, it was announced Monday. The confidential settlement, which court officials said was reached Friday, closed one of the uglier chapters of the never-ending postscript to the O.J. Simpson case.

O.J. Simpson has been diverting income from sports memorabilia to avoid paying the $33.5-million wrongful-death judgment to the families of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, a Goldman family attorney said Thursday. In a closed-door court session in Hanford, Calif., a town near Fresno, Goldman lawyer Gary Caris questioned sports agent Mike Gilbert on his dealings in recent months with Simpson, one of Gilbert's clients.

The lawyers of O.J. Simpson's children will have to wait until next month to argue that hundreds of thousands of dollars that Nicole Brown Simpson's family made from the sale of her photos and memorabilia rightfully belong to the children. A hearing on the matter, initiated by B.