- Posted January 20, 2012
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Judge tosses Kevorkian estate's art lawsuit
PONTIAC (AP) -- 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 last June at age 83.
Published: Fri, Jan 20, 2012
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