JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A surgeon who assailed a nurse administrator out of her hearing with foul expletives didn’t commit slander even though earlier he had loudly criticized her over how she did her job, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi law gives Yazoo City absolute immunity against claims its firefighters mishandled a house fire and the resulting damage caused a property owner to suffer a stroke.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Those who cause traffic accidents could be held liable when others involved overdose on pain medication prescribed for their injuries.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A Mississippi casino that offered customers “promo cash” and free meal tickets isn’t liable for the fatal crash of a charter bus they took to get there, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled, rejecting plaintiff arguments a casino employee encouraged the bus to continue on despite bad weather.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A law firm sued by its former client in Mississippi over an unsuccessful lawsuit over the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill can’t move the case to its home turf in Florida because the firm didn’t raise the question of improper venue in time, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A Mississippi school district isn’t liable for injuries suffered by an eighth-grade boy after two girls tricked him into a TikTok challenge called “Skull Crusher” in which they undercut the student after he jumped into the air.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Department of Transportation and a road construction company will not be liable for the death of a woman who drove down a closed portion of highway and struck a crane.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiffs were engaged in “classic fraudulent joinder” by naming a long-defunct company in a lawsuit over an apartment fire in order to keep the case in their preferred venue, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled, reversing a trial judge who thought the company lived on under another name.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - AT&T must pay a lawyer for time he spent proving the telecommunications firm wasn’t telling the truth when it said a member of his firm canceled their 1-800 number, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The parents of a young man whose death drew national attention including podcasts and a $47 million defamation suit can’t sue the man who obtained investigative records from the state before they did and published them on his personal website, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - An $11-an-hour officer who never graduated from the police academy isn’t a “law enforcement officer” for purposes of obtaining a probable-cause hearing over criminal charges he pepper-sprayed a youth, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A man who won a $700,000 verdict over the belated discovery that his two children were fathered by someone else had it taken away after the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled he waited too long to sue and his lawyer submitted the wrong instructions to the jury.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi’s highest court rejected a lawyer’s claim rival attorneys conspired to deprive him of his contingency fee in a legal malpractice lawsuit, agreeing a trial judge was justified in dismissing the long-running case as frivolous.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A man who registered some 60 website names containing the words “Mississippi” and “lottery” shortly before the state announced its first lottery in 2018 was rightfully stripped of the domains, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A man who lost two fingers as a child when they were caught in a bicycle chain can proceed with his lawsuit against a school district even though it was filed a decade later, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled, finding the district waived its statute-of-limitations argument by failing to raise it soon enough.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Korean electronics manufacturer LG Chem Ltd. can be sued in Mississippi over a lithium battery attached to a vaping device that exploded in a woman’s pocket, the state’s highest court ruled, reversing a lower-court decision dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The plaintiff who lost a medical malpractice lawsuit also lost her challenge to the verdict over complaints the judge refused to dismiss two jurors who had been treated by the defendant or another doctor in her practice.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - High school coaches who were accused of urging a student to “man up” and compete in a long-distance race after he was stung by a wasp can’t be sued for negligence because there is no evidence they were responsible for the runner’s subsequent fall and injuries, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled for a woman whose law firm lied to her about filing a Workers’ Compensation claim on her behalf for more than a year.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – A Mississippi cap on non-economic damages doesn’t apply to a $4 million jury verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit even though it was filed after the cap took effect.
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