by Associated Press Published: February 8,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, burial, court, death, denial, funeral, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, pre-need, trust
OXFORD — The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to hear more appeals in a pre-need funeral services contracts dispute between two Oxford funeral homes. The Supreme Court ruled last fall there was nothing improper about pre-need funeral services contracts written by Waller Funeral Home that forbid their transfer to another provider. The court denied motions [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 8,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, court, crime, decision, federal government, fraud, fraudulent, home, house, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, loan, mortgage, real estate, residential, ruling, scam, scheme
RIDGELAND — A federal appeals panel has upheld the conviction of three people in a Mississippi mortgage fraud scheme that involved more than $10 million in fraudulent loans. Former Ridgeland mortgage broker Mark Calhoun and father-and-son associates J. Larry Kennedy and Keith Kennedy, who operated a mortgage loan closing business, had appealed their 2010 convictions. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 5,2013
Tags: appeal, attorney, bench, court, divorce, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawyer, legal, oncologist, oncology, physician
GREENWOOD — The Mississippi Supreme Court denied petitions filed by Dr. Arnold Smith’s defense team to remove Circuit Judge Breland Hilburn from the criminal case set to go to trial in April. The Supreme Court issued an order this past week. The 70-year-old Smith is charged with murder as the alleged instigator of a plot [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 25,2013
Tags: appeal, attorney, bench, bribe, bribery, conviction, court, crime, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawyer
OXFORD — Attorneys for Richard F. “Dickie” Scruggs, a noted plaintiff’s lawyer before being snared in a corruption investigation, will argue his innocence March 4 before a federal appeals court. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will hear the case. Scruggs, 66, is free on $2-million bond while he appeals a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 24,2013
Tags: appeal, attorney, bench, bribe, bribery, case, corruption, court, crime, criminal, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawyer, legal, sentence
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court will hold a conference Feb. 15 to decide on whether to hear an appeal from Zach Scruggs, who was implicated as having knowledge of a judicial corruption scheme that toppled his father, plaintiffs’ lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs. The conference will also make a decision in the case of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 18,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, case, city government, court, decision, developer, development, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, municipal, municipality, real estate, rule, ruling, zone, zoning
NATCHEZ — The Mississippi Supreme Court has sided with the city of Natchez in a zoning dispute with a developer. The dispute stemmed from the city’s denial of a request from Dallas-based Roundstone Development, LLC to rezone 25 acres for single-family homes. The company planned to build 65 single-family homes on nine acres, leaving the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 18,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, city government, clinic, court, decision, health, health care, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, location, mental health, minicipal, municipality, psychiatric, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, ruling, site, treatment
OCEAN SPRINGS — The city of Ocean Springs is taking a fight over a location for a mental health clinic to the Mississippi Supreme Court. Jackson County Circuit Judge Robert Krebs ruled Dec. 21 that the city erred in denying a use permit to the Psycamore mental health clinic. The Mississippi Press reports the board [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 18,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, case, commission, court, employment law, fire, firing, forest, forester, forestry, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, logging, lumber, state agency, terminate, termination, timber, tree, wood
FRANKLIN COUNTY — The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a Franklin County forester fired for opposing a logging plan pushed by the state. The Supreme Court let stand a ruling by the Court of Appeals which last year sided with the Mississippi Forestry Commission. The Appeals Court decision overturned a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 16,2013
Tags: appeal, appropriate, appropriation, bench, case, city government, court, funding, infrastructure, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, spending, taxpayer
STARKVILLE — A lawsuit challenging how the city of Starkville is paying for infrastructure improvements is making its way to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The Starkville Daily News reports local resident William McGovern has appealed a chancellor’s ruling in favor of Starkville’s municipal facility construction plan to the Supreme Court. Chancellor Jim Davidson threw out [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 14,2013
Tags: appeal, court, distribution, electricity, energy, generation, judge, justice, law, legal, nuclear energy, power, regulator, state government, utility
JACKSON — The question of whether Vermont’s only nuclear plant can continue operating without the approval of state regulators goes before a federal appeals court today in a dispute that has gained increasing attention nationally about the boundaries of federal authority over a controversial power source. Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc. brought the issue to court. [...] [...]
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