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Sophia Bush american actress, director and spokesperson

Sophia Anna Bush born July 8, 1982 is an American actress, director and spokesperson. She currently stars in the CW television series One Tree Hill where she portrays Brooke Davis. Bush is additionally known for her film portrayals in the 2007 remake The Hitcher, John Tucker Must Die and The Narrows.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Public image
o 4.1 Activism
o 4.2 As a sex symbol
* 5 Filmography
* 6 Awards
* 7 References
* 8 External links
Early life
Bush was born in Pasadena, California. She is the only child of Maureen, a photography studio manager, and Charles William Bush, an advertising and celebrity photographer. Bush is of Italian descent. She graduated from Westridge School for Girls in 2000 in Pasadena, California. Bush attended the University of Southern California for three years, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, where she served as Social Chair.
In 2000, she was the Tournament of Roses Parade Queen. In 2003, Bush left USC to play Brooke Davis on One Tree Hill.
Career
Bush made her first big screen appearance in the comedy feature film Van Wilder. Following, she made appearances in several television shows, such as Nip/Tuck, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and Punk'd. She was cast as Kate Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, but was replaced by Claire Danes because the director thought she was too young for the role.
Bush at an autograph signing, September 6, 2006.
In 2003, she got the role of Brooke Davis in the CW television series One Tree Hill. Her character, Brooke Davis, evolved from a trouble-making vixen to a fiercely loyal friend. After Bush gained mainstream fame, she became a spokesperson for high-profile brands. She posed on the cover of several mainstream magazines such as Entertainment Weekly, Lucky, Maxim, Glamour and InStyle and has had several endorsement deals, one of her latest endorsements is for Op's fall campaign OPen Campus. Bush and her One Tree Hill co-stars were endorsers for MasterCard, Kmart, Chevy Cobalt and Cingular wireless.
In July 2006, Bush starred in the 20th Century Fox feature film John Tucker Must Die alongside Jesse Metcalfe and Brittany Snow. The film was a commercial success grossing over 60 million worldwide. She also starred in Buena Vista Pictures' thriller film, Stay Alive alongside Frankie Muniz and Adam Goldberg. The film opened at #3 in the U.S. box office, and is considered a box office success due to its production budget of 9 million dollars. In 2007, Bush starred in the remake of the 1986 classic horror film, The Hitcher as Grace Andrews. The film was critically panned among most reviewers.
Bush also starred in Francois Velle's The Narrows with Kevin Zegers, Eddie Cahill and Vincent D'Onofrio. She played the beautiful, intelligent and self-assured Kathy Popovich. The film is based on Tim McLoughlin's novel Heart of the Old Country and it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008.ush also stars in the feature film Table for Three.

Sophia Bush

anna nicole smith Anna Nicole Smith’s Estate Loses Supreme Court Case

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against the estate of Anna Nicole Smith, the Playboy Playmate whose marriage to the Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, 63 years her senior, led to an epic set of lawsuits between her and his son.
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Anna Nicole Smith, a former Playboy Playmate and reality television star, at the Supreme Court in 2006. She died a year later.
All of the principals in the drama have by now died, but the case lived on long enough to give rise to a significant and closely divided ruling on the separation of powers in the context of bankruptcy.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, held unconstitutional a provision of the bankruptcy laws that authorized bankruptcy judges to hear some kinds of claims. Because bankruptcy judges do not have the protections of life tenure guaranteed by Article III of the Constitution, the chief justice wrote, they may not decide “a common law cause of action, when the action neither derives from nor depends on any agency regulatory regime.”
That had the effect of overturning a bankruptcy court award to Ms. Smith, whose real name was Vickie Lynn Marshall, that at one point exceeded $400 million. She had asserted that Mr. Marshall’s son E. Pierce Marshall had wrongfully interfered with a gift she had expected from his father.
Chief Justice Roberts cited both Dickens’s “Bleak House” and foundational constitutional principles in explaining the decision. Under a contrary ruling, he said, “Article III would be transformed from the guardian of individual liberty and separation of powers we have long recognized into mere wishful thinking.
Still, he said, the decision “does not change all that much.” It was, he wrote, a matter of principle. “A statute may no more lawfully chip away at the authority of the judicial branch than it may eliminate it entirely,” the chief justice wrote.
Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. joined the majority opinion.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer dissented, saying the majority had elevated form over substance and should have instead considered the case pragmatically. He said the magnitude of the intrusion on the judicial branch was minimal, while the costs to the system of insisting that claims like Ms. Smith’s be heard on federal district courts were daunting.
“A constitutionally required game of jurisdictional Ping-Pong between courts,” he wrote, “would lead to inefficiency, increased cost, delay and needless additional suffering among those faced with bankruptcy.”
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined the dissent in the case, Stern v. Marshall, No. 10-179.