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March 31, 2008

Dickie Scruggs: A Legal Career Up In Smoke

Townhall.com Editorial, 3/31/8 Richard F. “Dickie” Scruggs has a gentlemanly demeanor seemingly at odds with his profession as a take-no-prisoners trial litigator. A decade ago, the Mississippi native was riding high. Nobody in the plaintiffs’ bar struck as much fear in the hearts of the nation’s tobacco manufacturers as he. Now his career appears over,…
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March 31, 2008

Legislators confident ethics reforms will pass

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 3/30/8 Efforts to strengthen the state’s ethics laws soon enter a key phase in the 2008 legislative session. The legislation would require public officials to provide more details about their assets and sources of income and place greater penalties on them for violating state ethics laws. Probably this week House…