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March 5, 2009
ICLAWBLOG – End days for False Claims Act case alleging massive insurer fraud?
End days for False Claims Act case alleging massive insurer fraud? Now, it has always seemed pretty clear to me that this strategy of claiming fraud on the nation’s taxpayers was simply a way to try to nationalize Katrina issues and put added pressure on insurers to pay more. One of the legal offensives that…
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March 5, 2009
ICLAWBLOG – Scruggs Nation: Zach was ‘halfway’ home
Scruggs Nation: Zach was ‘halfway’ home As best as I can understand it, the younger Scruggs didn’t report directly from the prison to the halfway house, but instead went to the middle of Oxford, near the old Scruggs Law Office, and had lunch with his family. Close family friend and former Mississippi AG Mike Moore…
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March 5, 2009
NMC – Judge Bobby DeLaughter hires Tom Durkin from Chicago…
Judge DeLaughter hires Tom Durkin from Chicago… It’s all becoming clearer. Larry Little has just moved to admit Thomas Anthony Durkin as co-counsel for Judge DeLaughter. Here’s the motion. Durkin is a prominent criminal defense lawyer in Chicago and a former assistant US attorney there. He’s done Gitmo cases. Here’s something about him from a…
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March 5, 2009
YAZOO – Travis Childers fooled many conservatives
Travis Childers fooled many conservatives An eighth grader came up to me the other day and asked, “Mr. Patterson, I notice that you use the word ‘spinmeister’ in your articles. What exactly is a ‘spinmeister‘?” “Let me give you a simple example,” I responded. “One day, I invited two friends of mine, Scott Jones and…
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March 4, 2009
Miss. near top of insurance list
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/4/9 Louisiana homeowners paid the third-highest home insurance rates in 2006, while Mississippi was hit with the sixth-highest average bill for coverage, according to a report by a national group of state insurance regulators. Although the report is the first since hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in 2005, leaving behind billions of dollars…
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March 4, 2009
Officials identify stimulus roadwork
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/4/9 The Mississippi Department of Transportation has published a list of nearly $200 million worth of “shovel-ready” projects it plans to fund largely with money from the federal economic stimulus package, but there is little in the list for the metro Jackson area. In the list of 44 projects, Hinds County stands to…
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March 4, 2009
Warr won’t seek re-election
The Sun Herald, 3/3/9 As he planted trees and trimmed shrubs in his yard Sunday, Mayor Brent Warr resigned himself to leaving office after only one term. He announced his decision Tuesday on videotape as he and his wife prepare to fight Katrina fraud charges leveled against them in a 16-count federal indictment. The 45-year-old…
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March 4, 2009
PEER: Highways not being built for entire state’s needs
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 3/4/9 Mississippi’s highways have not been built lately with statewide needs in mind, but by regional priorities that skew and sap statewide goals, a state watchdog agency reports. It also predicts that, given the state’s inadequate funding, the Vision 21 highway program the Legislature mandated in 2002 – including Highways…
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March 4, 2009
Stimulus resolution still alive
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/4/9 State lawmakers are expected to continue trying today to bypass Gov. Haley Barbour to accept all of the $2.8 billion in federal stimulus dollars available to Mississippi. House Concurrent Resolution 64 certifies the state’s intention to request and use all of the money, with or without Barbour’s approval. It cleared the House…
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March 4, 2009
5th U.S. Circuit Court: Ike Brown violated white voters’ rights
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/4/9 The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans agreed Friday with U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee of Forest that Noxubee County Democratic Party Chairman Ike Brown systematically violated white voters’ rights. The landmark case marks the first time in history that the federal government has used the 1965…
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March 4, 2009
Deadline strikes: Voter ID, elderly tax break dead
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/4/9 Legislation requiring Mississippians to show identification and allowing them to vote early appears dead with about a month left in the session, while measures that provide accountability for public schools and funding for Medicaid are still alive. Tuesday was the deadline for House and Senate committees to decide the fates of bills…
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March 4, 2009
Lewis to run for Ward 6 post in Jackson
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/3/9 The former head of Jackson’s Community Improvement Division filed paperwork today to run for the Ward 6 post on the City Council. Joe Lewis stepped down from his city position on Friday. Among other things, he oversaw the city’s program to demolish abandoned and rundown houses. Lewis now enters a crowded council…
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Frank Corder
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June 13, 2025
Nearly 280 from Mississippi National Guard deployed to D.C. in support of Saturday’s military parade
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Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press
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June 13, 2025
Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach
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Jeremy Pittari
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June 13, 2025
Mississippi Medicaid appropriation increases by $58 million for new fiscal year, state support nears $1 billion
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Paul Wiseman, Associated Press
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June 6, 2025
Hiring in the US slows, though employers still added a solid 139,000 jobs in May
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Frank Corder
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May 19, 2025
Modine expanding data center cooling equipment manufacturing in Grenada County
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Lynne Jeter
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May 19, 2025
Goldman Sachs honors inaugural Mississippi small business graduating class
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Laura Lee Leathers
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June 13, 2025
Roses and ramblings
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C.H. Spurgeon
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June 13, 2025
Weep for His pain
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Richelle Putnam
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June 12, 2025
Serving fresh, supporting local: Inside Vicksburg’s Tomato Place
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Lesley Davis
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June 12, 2025
A victory for sorority sisters: The DOE affirmed what every 18-year-old pledge already knew
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Russ Latino
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June 11, 2025
Gipson in for Governor. What’s the state of play for 2027?
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Josh Riggs
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June 11, 2025
Mississippi’s education success isn’t a miracle
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