An attorney claiming to be acting on behalf of Britney Spears has filed papers requesting that the matter involving the conservatorship of her affairs be moved from the LA County Superior Court to the US federal courts, apparently in an attempt to remove the singer from the control of her father James Spears.
Lawyer Jon Eardley filed the document, which points out that Spears has not "received the benefit of a single hearing before the court", and "is being confined by the conservator to the private prison of her own home", which he says is a violation of her human rights.
He's the second legal rep to try and get the conservatorship overturned, of course; attorney Adam Streisand attempted to represent Spears over the matter in the days after the order was first made.
Experts say that Eardley's request is unlikely to succeed, however. Loyola Law School professor Peter Tiersma is quoted as saying: "Anyone who's under a conservatorship can argue that they've lost their civil rights. That's what a conservatorship does, it takes away some of your rights", adding that if Eardley succeeded, that it "would mean that anyone under a conservatorship could do this, and that's a loophole you could drive a truck through".
A family law attorney, one Alexandra Leichter says: "This is strictly a state matter. The fed court will not take jurisdiction of this case. That is so far-fetched and off the wall. They'll laugh them out of court".
Elsewhere in Brit news, the singer's estranged and restrained (by an order, not physical bonds) sometime manager Sam Lutfi is being investigated by police following allegations made by Spears' mother Lynne that he drugged the singer. Lutfi's new spokesman, PR 'guru' Michael Sands, says they're aware of the investigation. Previously a rep for Kevin Federline's lawyer Mark Kaplan, Sands, as previously reported, quit because he was uncomfortable with all the mud-slinging that was going on. Having worked against her, he says, he now wants to "rescue her". "We want to get her back onstage and doing the right thing", he told MTV news. "So I'm working with Sam to reinvent her image".