Mississippi State Executive - Attorney General
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Recent News About Mississippi State Executive - Attorney General
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'Minor violator' paying $90M in oil spill settlement
Hood NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - A shareholder in a well owned by BP that failed and helped create the Gulf oil spill has settled with the federal government and five states. -
Miss. bill aimed at limiting Hood's authority refiled
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A bill aimed at limiting Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's authority has been refiled. -
Bill limiting Miss. AG's authority dead for breaking rules
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A bill that would have taken away some of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's authority is dead. -
Judge grants Miss. AG's injunction to stop pardons
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's request for an injunction to stop outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour's most recent pardons has been granted. -
Lawyer for accused killer files complaint against Hood
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The lawyer for a man accused of killing a Catholic priest has filed a complaint alleging ethics violations by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood for airing a campaign commercial that, he says, tainted the jury pool. -
Dispute between AG Hood and Feinberg remanded to Miss. court
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has decided that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's legal battle to enforce a subpoena against the Gulf oil spill victims fund should be heard in state court. -
Man says Hood campaign ad went too far
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A lawyer for a man accused of killing a priest says a campaign commercial for freshly re-elected Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has tainted the jury pool. -
Feinberg: MDL judge free to accept AG Hood's lawsuit
Feinberg JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Gulf Coasts Claim Facility administrator Ken Feinberg has modified his argument as to why the lawsuit filed against him by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood belongs in federal court. -
Hood has little trouble winning re-election
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Steve Simpson proved to be not much of a threat to Jim Hood's re-election as Mississippi attorney general. -
Miss. AG candidate: Video leak '100 percent' political slander
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) -- Mississippi attorney general candidate Steve Simpson says incumbent Jim Hood used his office's investigatory power to get a video of him helping a friend out of jail and then used it for his campaign. -
Barbour: Miss. not really getting $20 million from settlements
Barbour JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has warned a joint legislative budget committee against relying on recent legal settlements with four pharmaceutical companies as a "windfall" for the state budget next year. -
Report: Hood hurls allegation at opponent
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he is convinced that his Republican opponent, Steve Simpson, abused his office as the commissioner of the state's Department of Safety. -
Hood: Pointless to join health care challenge
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is among those Democratic attorneys general who say joining the multistate lawsuit against the federal health care law is pointless. -
Miss. AWP settlements worth more than $6M
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced on Monday that two more settlements with three pharmaceutical manufacturers have been reached in the ongoing cases related to average wholesale prices. -
Attorney: Voucher redemption in AG Hood case not surprising
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - An attorney who fights settlements that provide coupons to consumers and millions of dollars to attorneys says he was not surprised by the outcome of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's settlement with Microsoft. -
Microsoft all paid up on Miss. settlement
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced the final payment on Friday from Microsoft as part of a multimillion-dollar antitrust settlement the company reached with the state in 2009. -
Feinberg: Subpoena dispute doesn't belong in Miss. court
Feinberg JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Kenneth Feinberg, the man tasked with paying out Gulf oil spill claims, has filed his objection to having a lawsuit against him heard in a Mississippi court. -
Hood questions opponent's new job
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) -- Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is questioning whether his Republican opponent should be working for a company he helped to award a nearly $6 million state contract. -
Hood says suit against oil spill claims facility belongs in state court
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is arguing that his lawsuit against the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, which processes BP oil spill claims, should be heard in a state court. -
Feinberg wants Miss. AG's case stayed
Feinberg JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - First, Kenneth Feinberg removed a lawsuit brought against him by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood to federal court. Now, he wants it stayed.