Weighing in on the long-running dispute over the estate of James Brown, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a woman claiming to have been validly married to the Godfather of Soul wasn’t his surviving spouse entitled to a ...

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  Tommie Rae Brown has secured another legal victory in her effort to prove that her marriage to legendary soul singer James Brown was the real deal. “I feel good,” quipped her Charleston-based attorney, Robert Rosen, after the South Carolina ...

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An ex-trustee for James Brown’s estate wants the South Carolina Supreme Court to overturn a pair of orders dismissing her public records lawsuits. The outcome of the cases could have a significant effect on the state’s Freedom of Information Act. ...

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A freelance journalist who sued the state in her quest to uncover records in the James Brown estate plans to file a new public records request after a trial judge ordered the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office to pay her ...

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Freelance journalist Sue Summer had her toothbrush and other essentials packed in preparation for the worst. Her bag also contained a gift from her daughter, the memoir “Orange Is The New Black: My Year In a Women’s Prison."

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AIKEN — The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered Aiken County court officials to halt all proceedings in the complex cases regarding the estate of the late soul singer James Brown. The Aiken Standard reported that the state’s highest court ...

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A Charleston attorney for the woman who claims to be James Brown’s widow is accusing a freelance reporter of being in cahoots with the former trustee of the Godfather of Soul’s estate.

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The part-time reporter and fulltime grandmother covering the messy litigation over James Brown’s estate has been fighting for public records since she began writing for her high school paper.

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The South Carolina Supreme Court cancelled a lower court's Monday hearing in which a freelance journalist covering the fight over the estate of soul singer James Brown might have been forced to reveal her sources.

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A tenacious Newberry reporter was feeling good – and a little anxious – as she awaited the delivery of a package of documents that could provide answers to a question she’s been trying to answer for two years: Why did the state attorney general meddle in the estate of legendary soul singer James Brown?

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