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December 27, 2007
ICLAWBLOG – Scruggs Nation, Day 28
Scruggs Nation, Day 28 Balducci “did it on his own,” Keker says. “Now he’s trying to spread the pain around.” I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. This seems remarkably weak as a defense. I keep waiting to see what else Keker has got in his magic act, and he keeps going back…
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December 27, 2007
LNL – Scruggs gets extra month before trial
Scruggs gets extra month before trial Though the deadline for discovery will stay the same, U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers has pushed the bribery trial of prominent trial lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, back more than a month. On Friday, Biggers claimed that Scruggs’ defense team did not make a convincing argument to stay proceedings based…
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December 27, 2007
USATODAY – Bribery case stemming from Katrina lawsuits makes waves
Bribery case stemming from Katrina lawsuits makes waves The indictment and the criminal contempt charge stem from Scruggs’ work on behalf of Katrina victims. Scruggs, who lost his Pascagoula home in the storm, gathered prominent trial attorneys to sue State Farm, saying it had shortchanged Gulf Coast residents who lost homes and businesses. State Farm…
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December 27, 2007
WSJ – Mississippi Tort Inc.
Mississippi Tort Inc. The bribery case against tort baron Dickie Scruggs promises to be the trial of 2008 in legal and business circles. But whatever the verdict, the prosecution is already doing a public service by exposing the incestuous relationship among prosecutors and trial lawyers in Mississippi. It’s a pattern that deserves similar scrutiny across…
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December 27, 2007
Balducci: The eye of a legal storm
Balducci: The eye of a legal storm Balducci may have left Booneville because while Langston at times referred to him as a “partner,” Langston reportedly does not share ownership of the firm with his associates. That may not have set well with Balducci, often described as ambitious. But why he chose New Albany, instead of…
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December 27, 2007
Scruggs’ troubles spur political finger-pointing
Scruggs’ troubles spur political finger-pointing Gifts from Scruggs, his attorney son Zach, Oxford attorney Sidney Backstrom, New Albany attorney Timothy Balducci and former state auditor Steven Patterson may be in the political crosshairs after their Nov. 28 federal indictment, accusing them of trying to bribe Circuit Judge Henry Lackey in return for a favorable ruling…
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December 26, 2007
Delta task force making plans for ’08 session
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/26/7 For the upcoming legislative session, members of a Delta task force hope to use a divide-and-conquer strategy to push through another set of recommendations for the 18-county region. The group introduced a hefty set of measures in the 2007 Legislature to transform the nation’s poorest and least educated region with housing, educational,…
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December 26, 2007
Scruggs’ troubles spur political finger-pointing
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/26/7 While famed Oxford attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and four others wait for the Feb. 25 start of their judicial bribery trial, political campaigns across America may be wondering if they will continue to reap the financial benefits of the successful law firms’ largesse. Political sniping has begun in at…
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December 26, 2007
Clout helps bring dollars to state
The Hattiesburg American, 12/23/7 Chalk it up to seniority and political clout. That’s what Mississippi’s congressional delegation, including U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Trent Lott and U.S. Reps. Chip Pickering and Gene Taylor brought to the federal spending bill approved last week. The $555 billion omnibus bill provides financing for much of federal government next…
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December 26, 2007
State’s senatorial succession law anything but ‘unambiguous’
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 12/26/7 An obscure section of the Mississippi Code has gotten a lot of attention since U.S. Sen. Trent Lott announced his intent to resign before the end of this year. Here’s how Section 23-15-855, Subsection 1 reads in its entirety: (1) If a vacancy shall occur in the office of U.S. senator…
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December 26, 2007
Bribery case stemming from Katrina lawsuits makes waves
The USA Today, 12/25/7 Larger-than-life trial lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs is charged with small-time bribery, but the consequences could reach beyond the courthouse square in a northeast Mississippi town. Scruggs, who built a multibillion-dollar litigation empire by taking on the tobacco industry and winning, is a bankroller of Democratic political contenders, a friend of the…
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December 25, 2007
SALTER – Are the feds doing Jim Hood’s job for him?
Are the feds doing Jim Hood’s job for him? Last month, a federal grand jury in Oxford indicted internationally prominent trial attorney Dickie Scruggs along with three other lawyers, including his son, on charges that the defendants took part in a scheme to bribe a state trial court judge. Scruggs has pleaded not guilty to…
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