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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Mississippi Supreme Court

Recent News About Mississippi Supreme Court

  • Miss. SC dismisses claim over broken spinal cord stimulator

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Chandler JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court's ruling in favor of a medical device manufacturer whose spinal cord stimulator was faulty, claims a man who suffered injuries after it broke.

  • Minor appeal denied by U.S. SC

    By John O'Brien |
    WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - On the first day of its new term, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of Paul Minor, a Mississippi trial lawyer who was convicted of a judicial bribery scheme involving loans to state judges.

  • Bitter asbestos issue leads to bitterness on Miss. SC

    By John O'Brien |
    Graves JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A divided Mississippi Supreme Court has decided a judge was right to buy the story of asbestos attorneys in a "he said, he said" dispute over a private settlement conference, with a group of resentful dissenters lamenting the long-term effects of the decision.

  • Sherwin-Williams makes case against $7M verdict

    By John O'Brien |
    JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Trellvion Gaines never produced enough evidence to merit a $7 million jury award in a lead paint case, Sherwin-Williams is arguing to the Mississippi Supreme Court.

  • Obama calls on Miss. justice for federal job

    By John O'Brien |
    Graves WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - President Barack Obama has picked one of Mississippi's Supreme Court justices to take a place on a federal court of appeals.

  • Mississippi SC rules state can sue Bayer

    By Kathy Woods |
    James Kitchens JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline)-The Mississippi Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit against Bayer AG, ruling the state can refile a claim the pharmaceutical giant defrauded its Medicaid program.

  • Miss. damages cap also being challenged in federal court

    By John O'Brien |
    Lasnik SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - A Mississippi law capping non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits is being challenged in a federal court in Seattle by a plaintiff who recently won $3.2 million.

  • Miss. SC: Pharmacist reimbursement change was illegal

    By Kathy Woods |
    Randy Pierce JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline)-The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a chancery judge's ruling that the Division of Medicaid had no authority to change the way in which pharmacists were paid for prescriptions for those enrolled in the program.

  • Judge upholds $7M verdict in lead paint case

    By John O'Brien |
    Moellenberg FAYETTE, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A Mississippi judge has denied post-trial motions filed in the $7 million case of a former high school sports star who claims he was poisoned by lead paint manufactured by Sherwin-Williams.

  • Trial lawyers call disgraced attorney a 'political prisoner'

    By Chris Rizo |
    SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline)-- The nation's trial lawyers are calling for the release of one of their own whom they say was railroaded by the Bush administration at the behest of big business interests.

  • Mississippi votes sweeping change into high court

    By Staff reports |
    Ann Hannaford Lamar JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline)-Justice Ann Hannaford Lamar defended her seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court by a wide margin on Tuesday.

  • Judges picked for Katrina cases

    By John O'Brien |
    JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Eleven special judges have been selected to hear Hurricane Katrina cases in Jackson County, Miss.

  • Langston, Balducci still want federal judge deciding fate of fortune

    By John O'Brien |
    Balducci NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A pair of admitted felons who once represented the State of Mississippi in court will again argue on Friday that their fight to preserve $14 million from a state settlement belongs in federal court.

  • Scruggses want testimony sealed

    By Chris Rizo |
    Richard "Dickie" Scruggs JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline)-Disgraced plaintiffs' attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and his son want a federal judge to prevent their sworn testimony in a Hurricane Katrina lawsuit from being released.

  • Attorneys urge probation for Zach Scruggs

    By Chris Rizo |
    Dickie Scruggs JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline)--Zach Scruggs - the son of a once-high-profile-but-now-disgraced lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs - deserves probation for his role in a judicial bribery conspiracy led by his father, attorneys say.

  • New judge in Scruggs' Jackson case

    By John O'Brien |
    DeLaughter JACKSON, Miss. - With Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter suspended while complaints against him are sorted out, a new judge will preside over an attorneys fees dispute involving admitted felon and famed trial lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.

  • Judge DeLaughter may be suspended

    By John O'Brien |
    DeLaughter JACKSON, Miss. - Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter, one of the players in an alleged judicial bribery scheme conducted by famed trial lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, may soon be suspended from his job.

  • Box tightens: Judge in Jones v. Scruggs will hold evidentiary hearing after bribery trial

    By Steve Korris |
    Scruggs OXFORD, Miss. - Special Judge William Coleman has granted himself authority to enter default judgment against attorney Dickie Scruggs for bribing a judge, but he wants proof before he will exercise his authority.

  • Legends of Mississippi tort crumble, one-by-one

    By Steve Korris |
    Scruggs JACKSON, Miss. - No one in Mississippi knows for sure where all the tobacco money went, except former attorney general Mike Moore and his friend Dickie Scruggs, but people are perched on the edges of their seats to see who it destroyed.

  • MS lawmaker-judges set for Nov. face-off on SC vote

    By Legal News Line |
    Randy Pierce JACKSON -- A former Democratic state congressman with cross-over political appeal has jumped out early to take on a Mississippi Supreme Court incumbent in November's election.