JFP tackles YP’s motion to unseal
Attorney General Jim Hood offered no guess as to what media outlets are looking for in a sealed February 2008 settlement between his office and State Farm and Fire and Casualty Company. Jackson New Media, Inc., publisher of the Y’all Politics blog, filed motions to intervene and unseal the settlement this month, joined by three TV stations: Jackson’s WLBT, Hattiesburg’s WDAM and WLOX in Biloxi.
Jackson New Media says it should have free access rights under the First Amendment as a member of the press.
“Hundreds of thousands of Mississippians were adversely affected by Hurricane Katrina,” Jackson New Media attorney Andy Taggart said on the blog. “This was a watershed piece of litigation that tens of thousands of homeowners and all Mississippi taxpayers have a stake in. All we ask from the court is to allow the press and the public their First Amendment right to access relevant court materials and remove the lingering doubts as to what really happened in this matter.”
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Jackson Free Press
4/30/9
Magnolia Tribune
