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June 15, 2007

Tobacco money ruling upheld

The Sun Herald, 6/15/7 The annual diversion of $20 million of tobacco settlement money to a smoking-cessation program was wrong, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The Supreme Court upheld a December 2006 order from a Jackson County chancery judge, who said only the Legislature could appropriate money to tobacco-cessation programs. Barbour said the Supreme…
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June 15, 2007

Compliance with ruling on primaries leaves judge in control

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 6/15/7 Federal District Judge W. Allen Pepper in Greenville quietly demolished Mississippi’s century-old party primary election law last Friday night, declaring it worked in one-party days, but won’t today. Pepper upheld a constitutional challenge of the law by the Mississippi Democratic Executive Committee which brought the lawsuit based on its complaint that…