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May 25, 2012

Miss. high court reverses rulings by two Hinds judges in MCI and Microsoft cases

Miss. high court reverses rulings by two Hinds judges A Hinds County judge in 2010 ruled the $14 million in fees paid to two attorneys for handling a state lawsuit against telecommunications giant MCI was properly handled. Another Hinds County judge ruled the same again in 2010 involving $10 million in fees paid to lawyers…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 25, 2012

YP BREAKING – MSSC rules for Auditor Stacey Pickering on $14M MCI fee case against Joey Langston

As first reported on Jackson Jamabalaya, the MSSC has ruled in essence that fees in public cases where the state is the plaintiff cannot have fees paid directly to outside counsel in a settlement and that they are in fact public funds. We wish to make clear at the outset that our opinion should not…