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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.