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The family of Derek Boogaard, a former NHL player, who died of an accidental overdose of pain medication and alcohol, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the league, blaming it for brain damage he suffered as a routine fighter on the ice and for an addiction to painkillers.

O.J. Simpson, equipped with a new set of lawyers, was in a courtroom on Monday, in hopes of reducing his current 33-year sentence. Simpson reportedly is seeking to convince a judge that his former attorney Yale Galanter should not have been the one to represent him in his armed robbery-kidnapping case that sentenced him to 33 years in prison.

Mary Silwa, the third ex-wife of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Silwa, has filed a million dollar lawsuit against her former husband, calling him a liar, philanderer and swindler.