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Woman's minister husband was sleeping with other men and gave her HIV, but she can't sue the church
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – A Mississippi woman can’t sue her church because it failed to discover her husband was cheating on her with other men and those extramarital activities led to her contracting HIV. -
Navient can't escape Mississippi AG's lawsuit
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Student-loan servicer Navient can’t escape a consumer protection suit by the Mississippi Attorney General, even though it’s no longer originating loans in the state and argues federal law preempts the AG’s action. -
Fish fries, tent revivals and an aunt on the jury: Inside a $10.5 million Mississippi verdict
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Hyundai Motors won reversal of a $10.5 million verdict in a Mississippi car crash after uncovering a trail of evidence worthy of a John Grisham novel, including a “jury consultant” who staged tent revivals that drew in potential jurors before the trial and a chief justice whose clerk overheard an incriminating discussion in a seafood restaurant suggesting jury tampering. -
Coronavirus concerns not valid reason for absentee voting, Mississippi Supreme Court rules
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) –Those with physical disabilities or dependents who could be more susceptible to the effects of COVID-19 won’t get to vote by absentee ballot in Mississippi. -
Businesses successfully avoid residing in Mississippi city, paying its taxes
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – A Mississippi city won’t be allowed to swallow surrounding areas in what the trial court judge called a tax-grab. -
Their lawyer ignored them for three years and their $2.8M legal malpractice verdict keeps shrinking
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – Judges and juries are feeling too sorry for a Mississippi couple who were lied to by their lawyer for three years, the state Supreme Court has ruled. -
Fee dispute involving Mississippi lawyers transferred
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – A lawsuit against two Mississippi attorneys is on its way back to a court in Madison County - where all parties agreed it should have remained - following a recent Mississippi Supreme Court decision. -
Mississippi court rules plaintiff in medical malpractice case failed to prove doctor deviated from standard of care
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – A woman’s medical malpractice suit failed to prove that her doctor didn’t provide the standard of care needed, a court has ruled. -
Lawsuit over fatal fall out of tree stand rejected by Mississippi Supreme Court
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – Parents who filed a lawsuit over death of their son following a deer-hunting accident lost their appeal in the Supreme Court of Mississippi against the retailer that sold the tree stand and fall-arrest system used during the incident. -
Murder doc on Oxygen the subject of defamation case; Woman says it was suggested she killed her husband
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – The Mississippi Supreme Court reversed a change of venue in a defamation case where an investigative team took to a docuseries to suggest a woman murdered her husband after the death was ruled an accident 40 years prior. -
Mississippi Supreme Court rules doctor's motion to strike patient's affidavit in opioid case should be granted
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – Mississippi's high court has ruled a lower court erred when it denied two motions filed by a physician in an opioid-related suit filed by a patient. -
Wrongful death case sent to arbitration by Mississippi Supreme Court
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – A wrongful death case against Ocean Springs Health and Rehabilitation Center (OSHRC) will go to arbitration, Mississippi's highest court has ruled. -
Mississippi Supreme Court says plaintiff failed to prove legal malpractice caused damages
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Mississippi on Aug. 29 affirmed a lower court's decision in a legal malpractice case between a medical office and a law firm. -
Mississippi Supreme Court rejects appointment of special master in AG Hood's Hurricane Katrina lawsuits
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled a circuit court abused its discretion in the assigning of a special master and in the reassignment of a case involving Hurricane Katrina insurance and the state's Homeowner Assistance Program (HAP). -
Mississippi Supreme Court rules sand company 'has a right to be heard' in dispute over private road
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – An easement dispute over almost 100 acres in Warren County, Mississippi, is on its way back to a chancery court after the state's highest court ruled an Arkansas-based sand company had not been properly heard during a preliminary hearing. -
A woman sued Coca-Cola after a vendor ran into her, but courts have found she lied about existing back injury
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Mississippi has affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss a woman's lawsuit against Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United and one of its vendors over alleged injuries she sustained after being struck by the vendor's cart. -
Med-mal case tossed because plaintiff's experts lacked 'foundation in the medical literature'
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – A judgment in favor of a Mississippi hospital has been affirmed by that state's highest court in a medical malpractice case. -
Mississippi Supreme Court partially grants Hyundai's motion to clarify order in wrongful death case
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – The Mississippi Supreme Court has issued an en banc order granting a motion to clarify in a wrongful death case filed against an auto manufacturer. -
MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT: Justice Griffis to take Supreme Court oath Feb. 1
New Supreme Court Justice T. Kenneth Griffis Jr. of Ridgeland will take the oath of office Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. in the Supreme Court En Banc Courtroom in Jackson. -
MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT: Judge Donna Barnes to become Chief Judge of Mississippi Court of Appeals
Mississippi Supreme Court issued the following announcement on Jan. 24.Judge Donna M.