Mississippi Supreme Court
Recent News About Mississippi Supreme Court
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Fifth Circuit deems gun rights more important than employer rights, attorney says
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - A federal appeals court recently reinstated a lawsuit brought by an employee who alleged he was wrongly terminated for possessing a concealed weapon on company property. -
Miss. SC denies utility’s request for rehearing on refund ruling
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday denied Mississippi Power Company’s and the state Public Service Commission’s rehearing requests after the court decided earlier this year that customers should be granted refunds. -
Miss. SC: Power company customers due a refund; utility says it wants rehearing
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Last week, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that more than 180,000 Mississippi Power Company customers be granted refunds for a rate increase that was wrongly approved by the state’s Public Service Commission in 2013. -
Mississippi Supreme Court cautiously resolving lung injury claims; objections to jurisdiction, bias and fault ignored
WallerJACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) -Without confronting massive matters of jurisdiction, bias and fault, the Mississippi Supreme Court is resolving lung injury claims one by one.Last year the Court overturned judgments of $15.2 million and $2.6 million, on grounds that let them reject and ignore deeper objections of defendants.In the bigger case, Justices ruled that Jones County Circuit Judge Billy -
Jurors' decision in silica claim at odds with Mississippi judge
LAUREL, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Jones County jurors rejected a sandblaster's silica claim eight months ago, but a judge's decision to give the plaintiff a second shot may yet result in a verdict against former sand supplier Dependable Abrasives. -
Miss. appeals court remands lawsuit over alleged alligator infestation
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) -- The Mississippi Court of Appeals, in a ruling this week, said it is leaving a case over an alleged alligator infestation up to a lower court. -
Fifth Circuit upholds Miss. limit on noneconomic damages in personal injury cases
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) -- A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Mississippi's $1 million limit on noneconomic damages in personal injury cases is constitutional. -
Miss. SC agrees to hear case over company's tax assessments
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) -- The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to review an appeals court's ruling that the state Department of Revenue bears the burden of proving that the use of an "alternative apportionment" was the proper method to assess a company's income tax obligation. -
Miss. SC set to hear Texaco appeal
JACKSON, Mississippi - The Mississippi Supreme Court on Monday was scheduled to hear oral arguments in Texaco's appeal of a $19 million verdict that said the oil company was to blame for five children born with disabilities and illness. -
Miss. SC declines to answer noneconomic damages question
Randolph JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court declined Thursday to answer a question, certified to it by a federal appeals court, over whether the state's limit on noneconomic damages is constitutional. -
Miss. SC rules in favor of hospital in wrongful death suit
King JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a hospital in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of boy diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. -
Miss. SC: City police immune from wrongful death suit
Waller JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled last week that Jackson police officers did not act with "reckless disregard" of a woman's safety in a wrongful death suit filed by her family. -
Miss. SC remands case against sand supplier for man's silicosis
Dickinson JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court last week reversed a jury award of $7.6 million in favor of a man who sued a sand supplier over his lung disease. -
Miss. SC reverses $2.5M award against Kroger
Dickinson JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - In a ruling last month, the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed a $2.5 million award to a woman who was attacked and robbed in a grocery chain's parking lot. -
Miss. SC orders new trial in suit over asbestos exposure
Kitchens JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court, in a ruling earlier this month, remanded for a new trial a case over a chemical company's asbestos-filled drilling mud additive.
