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Phi Beta Kappa Society
Cases about members of Phi Beta Kappa Society. Memberships appear only where Wikidata records one for the person the case is about: societies, clubs, fraternities, academies, parties and councils.
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- 2014Joan Rivers's executors sued the Manhattan clinic where she stopped breathing during a throat procedure and settled in 2016 for an undisclosed sumamp.insurancejournal.com and 6 more
- 2008Michael Crichton's son was born after his death and left out of his will; in 2024 his estate sued Warner Bros., calling The Pitt an ER rebootNBC News and 5 more
- 1974Anne Sexton's psychiatrist gave about 300 therapy tapes to her biographer after her death, with her daughter's consent as literary executor, and ethicists condemned itpsych.upenn.edu and 2 more
- 1973Pearl S. Buck left three contradictory wills, a dance instructor and her seven adopted children fought for six years, and a Vermont court found undue influenceinquirer.com and 4 more
- 1965T. S. Eliot's 1,131 letters to Emily Hale stayed sealed at Princeton for 60 years, and Harvard released his own denial the same daypwb.princeton.edu and 3 more
- 1955Peary and Henson each fathered a son in Greenland, and Henson was moved beside Peary at Arlington in 1988arlingtoncemetery.mil and 3 more
- 1839Stephen Van Rensselaer III's will ordered $400,000 in back rents collected, and his tenants answered with the Anti-Rent WarAmerican Heritage and 4 more