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April 8, 2008
Childers, Davis work to rebuild campaign war chests
Childers, Davis work to rebuild campaign war chests Childers may have outpolled Davis in the April 1 party runoffs – Childers at 20,729 to Davis’ 16,830, in separate primaries – but Davis still had a substantial lead in campaign money, federal reports show. Up to the runoff, Federal Election Commission financial reports showed: – Childers,…
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April 8, 2008
LNL – Scruggs’ actions cause disqualification of former business partners
Scruggs’ actions cause disqualification of former business partners Scruggs gave consulting jobs that carried $150,000 salaries to a pair of former Renfroe employees, Kerri Rigsby and Cori Rigsby Moran, the two sisters known for copying thousands of confidential documents and turning them over to Scruggs. “I have determined that disqualification is required because Scruggs, acting…
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April 8, 2008
FOLO – The Fifth Circuit reverses the punitive damages award in Broussard
The Fifth Circuit reverses the punitive damages award in Broussard The Fifth Circuit today entered an opinion reversing a punitive damages award in a State Farm case from Katrina, Broussard v. State Farm. The major issues turn on burden of proof and how that relates to Mississippi punitive damages law. I spent the evening writing…
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April 8, 2008
ICLAWBLOG – Fifth Circuit reverses Broussard
Fifth Circuit reverses Broussard Here’s a pdf of the opinion, just out. Not much time right now to blog, but for now, this excerpt at the end of the case says it all: We REVERSE the judgment of the district court entering JMOL in favor of the Broussards. We REVERSE and VACATE the jury’s award…
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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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Jeremy Pittari
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June 15, 2026
Governor appoints Howell to fill 3rd Chancery District Judge seat
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Frank Corder
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June 15, 2026
Independent U.S. Senate candidate Pinkins believes many Mississippi voters want something different
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June 15, 2026
Trump heads to G7 summit with wind at his back after announcing agreement aimed at ending Iran war
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Frank Corder
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June 10, 2026
NPL Construction locating fabrication, manufacturing operations in Greenwood
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Frank Corder
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June 8, 2026
EVE Energy makes U.S. Dept. of War’s roster of “Chinese military companies”
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Daniel Tyson
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May 20, 2026
International Paper breaks ground on new $225 million facility in central Mississippi
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Robert St. John
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June 15, 2026
The unlived life
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Eric Olson, Associated Press
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June 15, 2026
Troy ramps up its offense to rally for 12-8 win that knocks Mississippi out of College World Series
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Alistair Begg
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June 15, 2026
Delivered by prayer
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Roger Wicker
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June 12, 2026
Wicker: Mississippi leads in national defense
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Ashby Foote
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June 11, 2026
A Jackson data center: Threat or opportunity?
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Andy Gipson
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June 10, 2026
Working with the Trump administration to eliminate welfare fraud
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