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Recent News About Mississippi State Executive - Attorney General
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Hood blames Entergy for legislative delay
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood recently said the power provider he has been battling for months is "kind of like the mafia." -
Pa. SC will rule on Gov. Rendell's contract with plaintiffs firm
Rendell HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a pharmaceuticals company that says a major plaintiffs firm hired by Gov. Ed Rendell should not be allowed to sue it. -
Web site answers Hood's argument on sealed State Farm settlement
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Since there is no "real objection" from Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, his Hurricane Katrina-related settlement with State Farm Insurance Cos. must be unsealed, the publisher of a state political Web site is arguing. -
Hood's outside counsel named lead plaintiff in securities class action
Hood NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Despite being termed a "professional plaintiff," a retirement fund represented by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and his outside counsel will be the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against a group of financial institutions. -
Hood says State Farm settlement should stay sealed
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he has no choice but to object to a political Web site's request to unseal his settlement with State Farm Insurance Cos. -
Skies darken on McCollum's sunshine bill
McCollum TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A bill that would have reformed contingency fee contracts in the Florida Attorney General's Office died Friday when the House of Representatives refused to accept an amendment to the bill added by the Senate. -
Many waiting for Cretul's call on sunshine bill
Cretul TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The eyes of tort reformers -- and of Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's staff -- remain on Florida House Speaker Larry Cretul Thursday. -
N.M. AG King lands in WSJ over Bailey Perrin contract
King SANTA FE, N.M. (Legal Newsline) - New Mexico Attorney General Gary King is the latest state official to catch flak from the Wall Street Journal over his relationship with Houston-based plaintiffs firm Bailey Perrin Bailey. -
Corbett 'not impressed' with major firm's case against Janssen
Corbett HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - Houston-based plaintiffs firm Bailey Perrin Bailey had its chance to impress Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett but could not and never tried again. -
Hood, Entergy disagree over executive bonuses
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - In addition to celebrating a Friday decision by the Louisiana Supreme Court, Entergy Corp. defended its executive compensation system Monday after Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood criticized it in a press release. -
Sorrell criticizing Entergy's advertising
MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - Another state attorney general is getting on power provider Entergy Corp.'s case, as Vermont's William Sorrell said the company's past claims of "zero emissions" are inaccurate. -
State Farm, Allstate dismissed from Louisiana Katrina case
Scruggs NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - Two insurance giants will be dismissed from a whistleblower lawsuit over their post-Hurricane Katrina practices because they are already facing one initiated by disgraced plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs. -
Hood: Don't believe power company
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - News from the camp of power provider Entergy just isn't true, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is contending. -
AG Hood never had authority to bring Katrina suit, judge rules
Hood BRANDON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's controversial lawsuit against five insurance companies he claimed mistreated Hurricane Katrina victims has been dismissed by a state judge. -
Hood levels charges at Entergy affiliate
Jim Hood (D) JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) -- Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced Tuesday that he has found more evidence of wrongdoing on the part of state power provider Entergy Corporation. -
Judge rules in favor of plaintiffs firm in contingency fee dispute
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiffs firm Bailey Perrin Bailey of Houston won't be disqualified from a lawsuit it brought on behalf of Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a state judge recently decided. -
Hood's attorneys giving water suit another try
Barrett NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - Outside counsel hired by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood are trying to breathe new life into a dispute with the City of Memphis over allegedly stolen groundwater. -
Hood, waiting on documents, files suit against Entergy
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has taken the next step in his increasingly contentious fight with power provider Entergy over alleged misconduct and a records request. -
Hood gets support in Entergy records dispute
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The state Public Service Commission is backing up Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood in his request for documents from power provider Entergy. -
Felon lawyers must make case in Miss. court
Pickering NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - The argument over $14 million in attorneys fees from a $100 million state settlement will be settled in a Mississippi court, and state Auditor Stacey Pickering thinks the decision may come quickly.