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February 14, 2008
SETR – Legally Speaking: Justice for sale?
Legally Speaking: Justice for sale? The question of who is responsible for this perception may depend largely on your political leanings. But one thing is clear – corporate defendants are not the monolithic evildoers, nor are plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers the shining virtuous knights, that John Grisham’s black and white world would have you believe.…
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February 14, 2008
FOLO – Patterson and Balducci talk about P.L. Blake
Patterson and Balducci talk about P.L. Blake Balducci then responds, “Well, that’s exactly what I was gonna tell him today, is that I was just gonna tell him that I’ve taken care of somethin’ you and I had gotten handled and that I was gonna get you to talk to P.L. and let P.L. visit…
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February 14, 2008
Hurt suspends campaign for House District 1
Hurt suspends campaign for House District 1 Hurt, who faced four challengers in the Democratic bid for 1st District U.S. House Representatives, said poor health and a lucrative book deal prompted his decision. Because it’s too late to remove his name from the March 11 election ballot, Hurt said he will participate in debates if…
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February 14, 2008
WSJLAWBLOG – Fun With Wiretaps, Courtesy of L’Affaire Scruggs
Fun With Wiretaps, Courtesy of L’Affaire Scruggs Henry Lackey: Hello? Tim Balducci: Uh, Hey Judge, It’s Tim. JL: Hey, Hee. . Hee . . He . . TB: How ya doing buddy? JL: Doing good . . . TB: Good . . . good . . . You got just a second? JL: Have plenty…
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February 14, 2008
MS Democrats Oppose Any Voter Identification
The chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party said today that a voter identification proposal before a state House committee could intimidate some people and prevent them from voting. Wayne Dowdy also said enacting voter ID in Mississippi is not an effective way to eliminate or combat voter fraud. “This issue is wrong for Mississippi,” Dowdy…
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February 14, 2008
MPB Interview with Don Mason re: Scruggs’ Defense “Entrapment” Allegations
MPB’s Sandra Knispel spoke to Don Mason, associate director of the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law at the University of Mississippi, about the motion to dismiss the Scruggs criminal bribery case.
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February 13, 2008
YP FLASHBACK – Scruggs: These are not just legal wars. They are public relations and political wars.
Lawyer Like A Hurricane Mr. Scruggs, 60, slim, often folksy and smooth as molasses in court, is using techniques that he honed in his earlier legal fights. He is arguing now, as he did before to such good effect, that he is fighting for the little guy who cannot stand up alone to big anonymous…
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February 13, 2008
FOLO – Thoughts on Scruggs’s quasi-entrapment argument
Thoughts on Scruggs’s quasi-entrapment argument Most lawyers reading that pleading think it has echoes of an entrapment defense without coming out and saying it; I think this has come up in comments. I had not given too much thought to why they don’t come out and say it, other than it’s procedurally not going to…
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February 13, 2008
FORTUNE – Scruggs may use stealth entrapment defense to bribery charge
Scruggs may use stealth entrapment defense to bribery charge In their papers, Scruggs and his two co-defendants – law partners Sidney A. Backstrom and David Zachary Scruggs (Scruggs’s son) – specifically ask a federal judge in Oxford, Mississippi to dismiss the indictment against them due to “outrageous government misconduct.” The motion alleges that government “agents,”…
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February 13, 2008
McMillin open on public records – or is he?
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/13/8 In a meeting with reporters in December, new Jackson Police Chief Malcolm McMillin made clear his policy toward providing information to media. “We’re not going to have any bull- over here about what you are entitled to,” he said. “I’ve had good media relations for 16 years, and I’m not going to…
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February 13, 2008
Policyholder Bill of Rights will get hearing
The Sun Herald, 2/13/8 The House Insurance Committee is expected to vote today on a bill that would expand the rights of residential insurance policyholders. A Policyholder Bill of Rights has been championed by Coast legislators and Long Beach homeowner Kevin Buckel, who was initially denied coverage for Hurricane Katrina damage. The Policyholder Bill of…
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February 13, 2008
Ethics bill clears Miss. Senate committee
The Sun Herald, 2/12/8 A comprehensive ethics and open-government bill could come up for Senate debate Thursday, and Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant says he hopes it will get unanimous approval. “To me, it is the most important bill that I have been a part of. It was the top of my agenda,” said Bryant, a…
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Jeremy Pittari
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November 24, 2025
IHL exploring updated funding formula for Mississippi’s public universities
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Jill Colvin, Associated Press
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November 24, 2025
Potential presidential candidates are less coy about 2028 plans: ‘Of course I’m thinking about it’
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Frank Corder
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November 24, 2025
Two state Senate special runoff elections to be decided December 2
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Frank Corder
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November 21, 2025
Ingalls completes sea trials for USS Ted Stevens
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Daniel Tyson
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November 20, 2025
Amazon investing $3 billion in Warren County data center campus
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Daniel Tyson
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November 18, 2025
Toyota investing $125 million in Blue Springs plant
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Robert St. John
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November 24, 2025
Time well spent
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Alistair Begg
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November 24, 2025
Remembered no more
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Matt Friedeman
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November 23, 2025
Hard work of evangelism
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Kimberly Ross
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November 21, 2025
The political right needs to exorcize its Fuentes’ demons
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Sid Salter
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November 19, 2025
Term limits: Why small rural states like Mississippi lose when seniority is forced out
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Jill Ford
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November 18, 2025
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