Oh boy.

Today is a big day for the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. A federal judge is expected to rule today on a deal that could give them control of sales of O.J. Simpson’s crazed manifesto, “If I Did It.”

The hearing, scheduled to begin now, will be held at U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Miami to finally determine who receives publishing rights to Simpson’s hypothetical story of the 1994 murder of his  wife and Goldman.

Simpson was famously acquitted of their murders at a criminal trial, but a civil court jury found him legally liable for the deaths. Fred Goldman, Ron’s father, won the right last month to pursue the publishing rights as part of the $38 million judgment against Simpson.

Afterward, relatives of Nicole Brown Simpson also said they deserved a share of any book rights.

FROM a CNN report:

Goldman and the Brown family initially blasted the publishers of “If I Did It” and said they never wanted the book to appear on store shelves.

After plans to publish the account were scrapped and the publisher was fired, Goldman changed his mind and said he wanted to publish the book himself and receive the bulk of the profits.

“Whether (Simpson) calls it a work of fiction or not, or nonfiction, the fact is that he murdered two people, and I’d like everybody to hear him virtually say it,” Goldman said during an appearance last month on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”

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