Anna Nicole Smith Gets Help with Bush

When the Supreme Court gets back to work next month, one issue it will decide involves Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith's bid for her late husband's fortune.
Smith has an unlikely ally in the Bush administration, whose top Supreme Court lawyer has filed arguments in her behalf.
The administration's filings are technical, having mainly to do with urging justices to protect federal court jurisdiction in such disputes.
Smith married oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall in 1994. He was 89 years old and she was a 26-year-old topless dancer in Houston. Marshall died in 1995.
Texas state courts awarded the estate to Marshall's son. Smith has had mixed results in federal court.