Britney Spears Conservatorship 

The pop icon Britney Spears went to court to ask for the end of the long-running conservatorship she is under. NPR has a 4 minute report here. Transcript available.

For more on NPR about the legal questions involved in conservatorships, you can read this.

There is also a New York Times documentary, Framing Britney Spears, which is free to NYT subscribers in the U.S. and available on Hulu. If you can't access the documentary, you can see a one-minute trailer at the bottom of this page.