Sam Still Avoiding Restraining Order

Six days after Britney Spears' parents successfully filed a restraining order against Sam Lutfi, her near-constant companion and supposed "manager," an official for the court confirms to OK! that the singer's friend has still yet to be served with the document.

Allan Parrachini, the press officer for the court, announced Thursday morning that process servers have been unable to hand off the order to Sam, who the restraining order alleges has attempted to control every aspect of Britney's life.

Negotiating the Path to Keeping a Home

Paul Helikson stepped into the swirling snow on the steps of the Deschutes County Courthouse on a Thursday morning just before Christmas and barked out the legal singsong that brought an all-too-familiar end to a homeowner’s dreams.

Another day, another foreclosure auction.

Helikson, a legal process server, works with most of the trustee companies that handle foreclosure operations in Central Oregon for the country’s major lenders, and business has been booming. The frequency of his legally scripted courthouse-steps auctions has gone from one every few days to about 15 a week as the real estate market has worsened, Helikson said. Still, it’s something that no one connected with the process enjoys.

Deposing Cheney Not Easy

Denver attorney David Lane wants to know what Dick Cheney remembers about a 2006 encounter in which a Golden man was arrested after making an anti-war statement to the vice president.

But deposing the vice president of the United States, it turns out, is easier said than done.