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January 14, 2008
WSJLAWBLOG – Report: Langston Pleads Guilty In Separate Scruggs Case
Report: Langston Pleads Guilty In Separate Scruggs Case If a report in yesterday’s Jackson Clarion-Ledger pans out, more bad news could well be on the way for Dickie Scruggs. And soon. According to the paper, Joey Langston (pictured) has pleaded guilty to a charge relating to an attempt to illegally influence a Mississippi judge, Bobby…
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January 14, 2008
REDBLUE – Langston, Balducci, Hood and Moore
Langston, Balducci, Hood and Moore A little over a year ago, then State Auditor Phil Bryant sent a demand letter to Joey Langston and the Langston Law Firm, where Tim Balducci used to practice, seeking recovery of the $14 million in attorneys fees improperly paid to Langston and Balducci in the MCI tax settlement case.…
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January 14, 2008
Scruggs Nation, Day 48: looking ahead, and looking way ahead
Scruggs Nation, Day 48: looking ahead, and looking way ahead A common sentiment among many of the people I have communicated with in Mississippi is hope, hope that despite the embarrassment of the ongoing investigations and revelations, a new and better future awaits. I think this accounts for much of the vehemence that we are…
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January 14, 2008
JJ – Clarion Ledger Dropping The Ball?
Clarion Ledger Dropping The Ball? Apparently former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters has been accused of taking over a million dollars from the attorneys involved in the current federal investigation into judicial corruption in Mississippi. The Clarion-Ledger reported today “According to statements, Peters was eventually given a total of $1 million to influence DeLaughter…
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January 14, 2008
An Open Letter to Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood
Jimmy, we have a problem . . .
By Alan Lange Editor, YallPolitics.com
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January 14, 2008
FOLO – The timing on DeLaughter’s courtesy call
The timing on DeLaughter’s courtesy call What if the bribee got snookered? FOLO 1/13/8
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January 14, 2008
ICLAWBLOG – Scruggs Nation, Day 47: story says Joey Langston pleads guilty
Scruggs Nation, Day 47: story says Joey Langston pleads guilty Insurance Coverage Blog 1/13/8
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January 14, 2008
OVERLAWYERED – Joey Langston indicted, cooperating with feds
Joey Langston indicted, cooperating with feds Now we may have a better idea why prominent Booneville, Miss. lawyer Joseph Langston recently withdrew as counsel for Dickie Scruggs in the widening corruption scandal: per a report by Jerry Mitchell in Sunday’s Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Langston was himself nabbed on corruption charges, has pleaded guilty and is cooperating…
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January 14, 2008
FOLO – Questions raised by the Langston guilty plea story
Questions raised by the Langston guilty plea story Langston is pleading guilty to an attempt to influence Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter in the Wilson v. Scruggs fee dispute case. An execllent and helpful account of that case is in this comment. Langston is apparently stating that he paid Ed Peters (former Hinds County district attorney…
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January 14, 2008
FOLO – Tim-ber-r-r-rrrrrrrrrr
Tim-ber-r-r-rrrrrrrrrr In patented Mitchell/C-L fashion, this story’s narrative of what actually went down is a chopped-up, chronologically-muddled mess. Best I can tell, though, it runs something like this: Back in 1994, Dickie Scruggs’s former partners in some settled-out asbestos litigation, Alwyn Luckey and William Roberts Wilson, Jr., sued him in Hinds County court over the…
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January 14, 2008
Joey Langston Pleads GUILTY
Another lawyer pleads guilty On Dec. 10, the FBI served a search warrant at Langston’s law office, where Balducci previously worked, seeking documents related to that attorneys’ fees lawsuit as well as documents regarding payments to Jackson lawyer Ed Peters, who played no known role in the case. In 2001, Peters retired as Hinds County…
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January 13, 2008
ICLAWBLOG – Renfroe v. Rigsby update
Renfroe v. Rigsby update Judge Acker denied motions by Scruggs and the Rigsby sisters that he recuse himself from the case on the grounds of the perception of bias that might arise from his referral of Scruggs for criminal contempt of court charges (Scruggs is not a party in this case, nor did he represent…
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April 17, 2026
The Supreme Court hands a win to oil and gas companies fighting environmental lawsuits in Louisiana
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Jeremy Pittari
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April 17, 2026
Denise Jones Gregory named Jackson State’s 14th president
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April 17, 2026
Magnolia Mornings: April 17, 2026
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Frank Corder
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April 17, 2026
Walmart announces plan to remodel 19 Mississippi stores
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Susan Marquez
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April 10, 2026
C Spire completes work under Mississippi Capital Projects Fund to expand high-speed, broadband infrastructure
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Daniel Tyson
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April 9, 2026
Amazon investing another $12 billion in Central Mississippi
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Richelle Putnam
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April 17, 2026
Beth Ann Fennelly’s The Irish Goodbye: Finding extraordinary in the ordinary
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Alistair Begg
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April 17, 2026
Your kingdom come
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Susan Marquez
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April 16, 2026
Growing in Mississippi: Salad Days
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Sid Salter
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April 15, 2026
April 15th is the perfect day to focus on the ramifications of federal and state tax gaps
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Hunter Estes
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April 14, 2026
From Mississippi to the moon
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Lesley Davis
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April 14, 2026
The night America remembered who she is
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