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March 28, 2012
Rift among MS House Dems? Ed Blackmon argues against David Baria’s stance on pardons
Baria proposes changes to governor’s pardons Baria said his legislation would require the local district attorney and sheriff where a crime happened be notified when a convict requests a gubernatorial pardon. The DA and sheriff would be required to notify the victims and their families and hold a public hearing, and send a transcript of…
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March 27, 2012
NMC – Ed Peters will not testify in Scruggsapolooza II
Scruggs II afternoon update The big news from the courtroom today is that Ed Peters won’t testify. The lawyers for both the Government and Scruggs says that Cynthia Stewart, Peters’s lawyer, stated that he is so deaf he could not hear the questions, and so they are using his FBI interview statements and his grand…
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March 26, 2012
OXFORD EAGLE – Opening statements begin in Dickie Scruggs hearing
Opening statements begin in Scruggs hearing Prosecutors say Scruggs used his relationship with retired Sen. Trent Lott to influence then-Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter for favorable rulings in a lawsuit against him. Prosecutor Bob Norman stated “DeLaughter had two weaknesses, one being his relationship with his mentor and friend, Ed Peters and the other his…
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March 26, 2012
ZNN – Former US Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott testifies for his brother in law Dickie Scruggs
Scruggs update: Lott insists DeLaughter should have known he would not be judge candidate (sic) MIKE MOORE – Calls former Sen. Trent Lott. (Lott sworn in) State your name… Background) Lott tells about time in Cognress. Past 4 years with Breaux.(From Aug 2003 – 2006 senators/) Yes. (KNow Dick SCruggs/) From same homd town, married…
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March 26, 2012
ZNN – Dickie’s still dreamy
Scruggs to fight conviction In 2008, Scruggs pleaded guilty to another judicial bribery case aimed at Circuit Judge Henry Lackey of Calhoun City presiding over another legal-fees lawsuit against Scruggs. He and three others went to prison in the case, and his son, Zach, went to prison after pleading guilty to a lesser charge. This…
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March 26, 2012
YP CORRECTION – Florida has retained outside counsel to handle BP litigation . . . for 2.5% max
On Friday, YallPolitics posted a story about Florida having not engaged outside counsel to pursue BP for damages on behalf of the state as Mississippi has recently done with AG Jim Hood hiring his mentor and former AG Mike Moore. A die-hard YP reader reached out to us and let us know we were wrong.…
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March 26, 2012
Bobby DeLaughter strikes back and lashes out at Mike Moore on question of testifying
Former Judge Bobby DeLaughter’s Response to Dickie Scruggs/Mike Moore
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March 23, 2012
Political Bounty Hunting
by Frank Corder
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March 22, 2012
Mike Moore will likely not be working on BP next Monday – Dickie Scruggs’ guilt expo starts
Scruggs II trial– about setting aside Dickie Scruggs’s plea– set for Monday in Oxford Judge Davidson has moved the hearing in Scruggs II to Oxford, and it will start on Monday. The issue is “actual innocence” to the charge of bribing Judge DeLaughter. A huge range of the players in that case– Ed Peters, Joey…
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March 22, 2012
Overlawyered looks at Jim Hood’s hiring of Mike Moore for BP case
Hood hires Moore for Mississippi BP suit The cozy dealings between the state of Mississippi and well-connected private lawyers — especially the way the state comes to hire those lawyers on contingency fee to pursue high-ticket suits against outside defendants — have long furnished grist for this site. Now, opening a new chapter, Mississippi AG…
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March 21, 2012
LegalNewsline picks up on Jim Hood’s hiring of Mike Moore to handle BP conflict
Hood hires former AG, former SC justice to handle BP claims Hood told The Associated Press Tuesday that he has hired Mike Moore, a Democrat who served as attorney general from 1988 to 2004, and Reuben Anderson, the first African-American justice to serve on the state’s high court. The attorney general also confirmed to the…
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March 21, 2012
Fees in Mike Moore’s contract to sue BP on behalf of Jim Hood are not enumerated
Former MS Attorney General Mike Moore and current MS Attorney General Jim Hood have executed a contract to allow Moore (and attorney raft picks to be named later) to settle with BP over an as yet unfiled claim on the BP oil spill. Interestingly, there is no specific financial arrangement. Moore and Hood contractually agree…
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Frank Corder
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April 21, 2025
Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church, dies at 88
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Jeremy Pittari
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April 17, 2025
Regulating kratom in Mississippi: Age restriction, local bans, business concerns
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Daniel Tyson
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April 17, 2025
State Defender hopeful pilot program will receive funding in special session
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Lynne Jeter
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April 17, 2025
GE Aerospace moving at warp speed in Batesville
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Lynne Jeter
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April 15, 2025
ABB doubling size of operations in Tate County
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Lynne Jeter
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April 9, 2025
Cultivating deep Magnolia State connections
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C.H. Spurgeon
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April 21, 2025
God’s children now
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Matt Friedeman
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April 20, 2025
The Power of the Cross
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Laura Lee Leathers
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April 20, 2025
Mississippi Legends: Folk-rock singer and songwriter, Steve Forbert
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Jonathan Bain
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April 18, 2025
“One Door” is an open door for welfare expansion in Mississippi
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Sam Franklin
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April 17, 2025
Tariffs at the dawn of the American republic
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Lesley Davis
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April 16, 2025
Mississippi took bold steps this session but there’s more work to do
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