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.
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.
Chandler JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court last week upheld a county school board's decision to fire a teacher after she refused to take a drug test.
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that private attorneys hired by state Attorney General Jim Hood to sue MCI and Microsoft should not have received millions of dollars directly from settlements.
Carlson JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court earlier this month ruled in favor of a group of businesses that were sued for allegedly causing a man's lung disease and, later, his death.
Dickinson JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that a woman who accidentally rear-ended another woman's vehicle should only have to pay $9,000 for physical therapy bills.
Lamar JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court last week upheld a trial court's reduction of a $1.5 million jury verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Chandler JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court, in a ruling last month, agreed with a lower court, dismissing a wrongful death lawsuit against a doctor, nurse and a hospice facility.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court, in a ruling Thursday, reversed a lower court's approval of a $2.88 billion coal plant project in the state.
Kitchens JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court said last week that a trial judge erred in denying a car dealer's motion for change of venue.
Chandler JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court, in a consolidated opinion filed last week, upheld a chancery court's order denying a publishing company's request to compel arbitration.
King JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court last week affirmed a lower court's ruling in favor of a woman who claimed she was sexually harassed by a fellow police officer.
Chandler JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Earlier this month, the Mississippi Supreme Court allowed a silicosis plaintiff to add several new defendants after he had settled with the original four.
King JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court last week reversed part of a lower court's decision in a case over a state underwriting association's request to assess its members to cover losses following Hurricane Katrina.
Joyce WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Philadelphia's civil courts system has been named the nation's worst by the American Tort Reform Foundation for a second consecutive year.
King JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled last week that an oil company can deduct reasonable processing and investment costs from payments to royalty owners.
Lamar JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled last week that a trial court erred in dismissing a man's second medical malpractice claim against a doctor and hospital.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - Two asbestos attorneys fighting a fraud verdict against them say a railroad company missed the statute of limitations in suing them.