For some reason the LA Times has categorized this story under “Science & Medicine.” Curiouser and curiouser
And the Oscar for best Hollywood courtroom drama goes to … the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The golden statuette was awarded Monday by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury, which ruled that if Mary Pickford’s heirs want to sell it, they have to offer it to academy officials for $10 instead of auctioning it off for as much as $800,000. Academy leaders took a Rancho Mirage woman, her daughter and a cousin to court after the women announced plans to sell the Oscar presented in 1930 to the silent-movie star known as “America’s sweetheart” and donate the proceeds to charity
from “Jury bars auction of Mary Pickford’s Oscar,” by Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times, 16 December 2008