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December 17, 2007
Senate to settle election dispute
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/16/7 When the Mississippi Legislature convenes next month, Canton Alderman Kenny Wayne Jones plans to fill a seat he narrowly captured from Sen. Joseph Thomas of Yazoo City. His new colleagues will determine whether he keeps it, though. Senators are expected to follow a seldom-used procedure to decide if Thomas should be awarded…
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December 17, 2007
Bryant picks Hewes as president pro tem
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/15/7 Lt. Gov.-elect Phil Bryant has tabbed Billy Hewes, R-Gulfport, as his choice for Senate president pro tem. In a letter to the 52 members of the state Senate, Bryant said Hewes has “broad-based support in the Senate, and even the members who expressed another preference speak favorably about him.”…
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December 17, 2007
Women hitting political glass ceiling in Miss.
The Sun Herald, 12/15/7 Mississippi shares the dubious distinction with Iowa of never sending a woman to Congress or electing one as governor – something outgoing Republican Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck could possibly have changed. Mississippi will have two vacancies in Congress now that powerful U.S. Sen. Trent Lott and U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering, both…
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December 17, 2007
FOLO – But why, Dickie?
But why, Dickie? The most fascinating question, the one at the heart of U.S. v. Scruggs, is really psychological rather than legal or financial. Rossmiller repeats the phrasing of it featured in folo-friend Walter Olson’s article for the Wall Street Journal yesterday: “It just boggles the mind,” said one Mississippi trial lawyer quoted in the…
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December 17, 2007
OVERLAWYERED – Scruggs indictment XI
Scruggs indictment XI The assignment of steady continuing payments to Blake over the life of the tobacco settlement distinctly resembles a gesture toward diverting a share of the tobacco proceeds (a contingency share, as it were) to reward and incentivize Blake, or perhaps Blake-and-others-too, to work for the success of the deal. [corrected 12:24 on…
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December 17, 2007
ICLAWBLOG – Scruggs Nation, Day 17: Jones v. Scruggs revisited
Scruggs Nation, Day 17: Jones v. Scruggs revisited But back to the central point of today: why would he do it? What Jones and Funderburg appear to be driving at is that acting in this way is a habit, a method of doing business. Seen in this light, the alleged bribery scheme is just an…
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December 17, 2007
Famed attorney told to answer questions about leaked Katrina documents
Famed attorney told to answer questions about leaked Katrina documents A federal judge has ruled that Scruggs and his son and law partner, Zach, can be questioned under oath about their handling of leaked documents in a Hurricane Katrina insurance case. The order is unusual because Scruggs is an attorney in the case, and his…
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December 17, 2007
ICLAWBLOG – Scruggs Nation, Day 18
Scruggs Nation, Day 18 Not much time for blogging today, but numerous readers have been sending me links to two good stories in today’s papers, one by Anita Lee in the Sun Herald on P.L. Blake, another by Jerry Mitchell in the Clarion-Ledger on prosecutors’ investigation into a prior Scruggs fee dispute in Hinds County.…
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December 17, 2007
As If On Cue, the CL Carries Water for Speekah Billy McCoy
The most unpardonable journalistic sin is plagarism. The second is burying the lead. Today, the CL Editorial Board may have to beg for forgiveness in the second department. Today in their Editorial Speaker: McCoy’s the Better Choice, Hampton & Company seem conflicted about their choice. We find no fault in Smith – moreover, we like…
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December 17, 2007
CL – Feds probe Hinds case
Feds probe Hinds case It began in 1994 in Hinds County Circuit Court when Alwyn Luckey sued his two former law partners, Scruggs and Scruggs’ then-law partner, William Roberts Wilson Jr., for what Luckey’s contract called for – 25 percent of the attorney fees from litigation against asbestos manufacturers. Wilson countersued Scruggs for monies he…
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December 17, 2007
SUNHERALD – Dickie Scruggs’ $50 million man
Dickie Scruggs’ $50 million man Blake will earn $50 million, court records show, for clipping newspaper articles and alerting Scruggs to maneuvering in political “cloakrooms,” as Scruggs put it, from Mississippi to Washington. Scruggs managed a transformation of his own over the same two decades, from small-town attorney to polished multi-millionaire. Scruggs also amassed around…
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December 15, 2007
FOLO – NMC Checks Out Balducci’s Chops
NMC Checks Out Balducci’s Chops Tim Balducci apparently had a different theory. The first three are all criminal cases in which the circuit judge was Henry Lackey — and Tim lost! And lost on appeal! Two were of such insignificance the court did not write an opinion, and in the third, the only issue was…
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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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Jeremy Pittari
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November 21, 2025
Mississippi lawmakers react as SNAP work requirement modifications take effect
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Frank Corder
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November 21, 2025
Alcorn’s Sound of Dyn-O-Mite to represent Mississippi in the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
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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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Daniel Tyson
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October 30, 2025
Mississippi senators hear concerns from farmers as state’s agriculture industry struggles
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Susan Marquez
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November 21, 2025
It’s not Thanksgiving for Chef Austin Sumrall without his Oyster Hand Pie
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Alistair Begg
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November 21, 2025
Preaching the Kingdom of God
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Mark Long, Associated Press
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November 20, 2025
Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin and Texas’ Steve Sarkisian take different approaches to coaching rumors
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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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