DANCE IN THE COURTROOM.
Fred Astaire's widow, Roby, lost a Supreme Court appeal in
October, ending her lawsuit against Best Film & Video Corporation
for what she said was unauthorized use of Astaire's image on a
dance instruction videotape.... Michael Flatley Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Irish-American step dancer from the south side of Chicago. His parents were from County Mayo and County Carlow. As a child, he moved to Chicago - the city which he considers his home town. appeared in court in
London in October to face his manager, John Reid John Reid may refer to: - John Reid (soldier) (born 1721), a British general and musical composer, who left a bequest to fund a chair in Music at the University of Edinburgh
- John Dowsley Reid (1859-1929), a Canadian parliamentarian and Cabinet minister
- John C. W.
, who sued the dancer
for 10 million [pounds sterling] over a broken management contract....
At the memorial for Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26 1930) is an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. She was considered a strict constructionist. remembered him as a superb dancer, and recalled
his kindness when she became the first woman on the court. According to
Powell's obituary in the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, Justice Powell told
O'Connor that he would be remembered as the first Supreme Court
justice to have danced with another justice.
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