Pierce JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A former high school sports star did not produce enough evidence to justify the $7 million verdict a jury in his home county awarded him in a lead poisoning case, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - Illinois Central Railroad says the appeal of two Mississippi asbestos attorneys found to have committed fraud is not supported by any facts or laws.
Bowen JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has stayed a record-breaking asbestos case in which the defendant argues the judge had a "blatant" conflict of interest.
Kitchens JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has dismissed a county's appeal in a wrongful death case involving an escaped prisoner.
Schwartz WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A tort reform advocate who was interviewed for a documentary that debuts Monday on HBO says his comments were taken out of context, though the filmmaker is defending her editing.
Bowen RALEIGH, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Union Carbide says the judge on a record-breaking asbestos lawsuit excused jurors with family ties to asbestos suits but did not reveal his own.
Lamar JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has overturned a $2.5 million judgment in favor of a cable company worker who was injured after touching a live electrical wire.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - Two asbestos attorneys found by a jury to have committed fraud against a railroad made their argument to a federal appeals court in a brief filed Friday.
Lamar JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a trial court's ruling in favor of a company that makes carbon compounds and treated wood products, saying the plaintiff suing it failed to provide expert opinions.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has permitted the testimony of a Fen-Phen lawyer who claims two of his colleagues were settling cases too early and for too little in order to maximize attorneys fees.
Scruggs JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) -- The Mississippi Supreme Court is referring an attorneys fees dispute against disgraced plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs to arbitration.
Kitchens JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a trial judge's decision in a wrongful death lawsuit that said a great-nephew lacked standing because he is not considered a beneficiary under the state's wrongful death statute.
Chief Justice William Waller, Jr. JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - If two asbestos attorneys found to have defrauded a railroad company do not win their appeal, they should be permanently disbarred, the Mississippi Bar Association says.
Waller JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments in disciplinary cases against two asbestos lawyers and the appeal of a paint company on the hook for a $7 million verdict in its coming session.
King JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour announced this week the appointment of Judge Leslie King to the Mississippi Supreme Court.
Chandler JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has reversed the decision of a lower court in the case of a woman who sued her former counsel for legal malpractice after they allegedly failed to serve the defendants in her wrongful death lawsuit.
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has deemed a casino that continued to serve alcohol to a man on a 16-hour gambling and drinking bender, and who later drove and killed two people, is liable for the deaths.
Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) -- The Mississippi Supreme Court has decided it will take up the state Attorney General Office's appeal of a judge's ruling that Mississippi's price-gouging law is "unconstitutionally vague," according to The Associated Press.