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April 7, 2008
FOLO – A Chronology of the Katrina and Scruggs cases from mid-2006 to January 2008
A Chronology of the Katrina and Scruggs cases from mid-2006 to January 2008 Yesterday, as I was trying to sort out why Judge Senter chose to disqualify the Katrina Group lawyers at this point, I started putting together a chronology of events related to disqualification, setting them in a timeline with events in various State…
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April 7, 2008
Hotel tax hike has slim chance, lawmaker says
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/7/8 A bill that would increase the hotel-motel occupancy tax from 75 cents to $4.25 per room per night has a slim chance of getting through the state Legislature. Rep. Credell Calhoun, D-Jackson, is cautiously optimistic about House Bill 1710, which is meant to raise the salaries of Jackson police officers. “There are…
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April 7, 2008
Salt dome hearings start this week
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/7/8 The U.S. Department of Energy begins a series of hearings this week into the government’s proposal to use water from the Pascagoula River to clear out salt domes in Perry County for storage of the nation’s oil reserves. The first public hearing is today at 6 p.m. in New Augusta at the…
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April 7, 2008
Damage mounts as cleanup continues
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/7/8 The damage estimate from Friday’s tornadoes kept growing Sunday as cleanup continued. Almost 20,000 residents statewide remained without power late Sunday night. About 6,000-7,000 homes in the metro area were damaged, and about 50 homes and eight mobile homes were destroyed, Hinds County Emergency Operations Center Director Larry Fisher said Sunday. The…
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April 7, 2008
House, Senate divided over Medicaid funding
The Commercial Dispatch, 4/5/8 The Mississippi House and Senate are divided on how to keep the state Medicaid program from running out of money, but lawmakers will be struggling this week to keep that from happening. The state’s $4 billion Medicaid program is projected to go bust by April 20 — prompting doomsday scenarios of…
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April 7, 2008
House puts ‘sin tax’ hike on the table
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 4/5/8 The Mississippi House decided Friday that a tax increase on cigarettes and liquor should be considered in negotiations to solve the Medicaid shortfall. “You negotiate with all the cards on the table,” said Rep. George Flaggs, D-Vicksburg. “If Medicaid is so important, why don’t we place all the cards…
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April 7, 2008
Mississippi may help test Medicare project
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/5/8 Mississippi may be in the running to serve as one of a dozen test sites across the country for a new Medicare project that would provide incentives for private physicians to start using electronic health records. Gov. Haley Barbour and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt met this week…
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April 7, 2008
Scruggs Nation, April 5: the fall of the Scruggs Katrina Empire
The Insurance Coverage Blog, 4/5/8 Regarding yesterday’s news of the disqualification from Katrina cases of the Katrina Litigation Group, the entity derived from the former Scruggs Katrina Group and containing three of the original five firms, what will happen now? It’s hard to overstate how big a development in Katrina litigation this is. Remember as…
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April 7, 2008
Senate: Unique factors shaping race
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 4/6/8 As Mississippi State University Stennis Institute of Government director Marty Wiseman points out in his commentary in “Perspective” today, state voters haven’t chosen a new U.S. senator in a special election since they chose John Stennis in 1947. It was a fateful choice. Stennis went on to amass vast power and…
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April 7, 2008
Legislature ’08: Much work remains
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 4/6/8 The 2008 legislative session has seen “progress” on feel-good legislation to snooker voters into thinking they’ve actually done something that will have any miniscule impact on the flow of illegal immigration. There has also been “progress” on that crucial issue of how best to put corn on the ground so that…
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April 7, 2008
Scruggs scandal developments, February 5
Overlawyered, 4/5/8 * Pertinacious Scruggs effort to evade deposition by State Farm attorneys results in “testosterone fiesta” of swaggering counsel (Folo; sequel; YallPolitics; Rossmiller); (P.S. Yes, Ted and I independently noticed and posted on this just minutes apart.) * Remember when Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood declared his political patron Scruggs a “confidential informant”, thus…
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April 7, 2008
WSJLAWBLOG – Lawyers in State Farm Suits Barred for Payments to Witnesses
Lawyers in State Farm Suits Barred for Payments to Witnesses Last June, long before L’Affaire Scruggs was even a glimmer in the public’s eye, the Law Blog noted that a judge recommended that the feds prosecute Scruggs for violating a court order related to the handling of documents in Hurricane Katrina insurance cases. The judge…
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October 8, 2025
Federal government shutdown grinds into a second week, but quiet talks emerging
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Frank Corder
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October 8, 2025
Illinois case before SCOTUS could provide glimpse into Mississippi’s mail-in ballot challenge
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Daniel Tyson
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October 8, 2025
Majority of Jackson City Council wants water system operations returned to municipality
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October 7, 2025
Averitt Express announces $9.6 million expansion in Richland
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October 2, 2025
Smurfit Westrock expanding in Saltillo
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Lynne Jeter
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September 25, 2025
Jabil establishing $70 million facility in Marshall County
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Susan Marquez
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October 8, 2025
Family of Curious George creators visit de Grummond Collection in Hattiesburg
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Ashok Amaran
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October 8, 2025
Consumed by pride
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Stephen Griffin
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October 7, 2025
Tiny houses, big ideas: A new chapter for Mississippi State Parks
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Sid Salter
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October 8, 2025
Researchers say religion declines globally, but Mississippi still the ‘most religious state’
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Jeremy England
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October 7, 2025
The dream for Israeli citizens is the American Dream
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Haley Fisackerly
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October 6, 2025
Superpower Mississippi: Entergy Mississippi’s bold plan to cut power outages in half at less cost to customers
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