by Associated Press Published: May 12,2013
Tags: attorney, bench, bond, case, court, doctor, homicide, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawyer, medical, medicine, mental health, murder, murder-for-hire, physician, shoot, shooter, shooting, trial
GREENWOOD — Bond has again been denied for Dr. Arnold Smith but a judge says he may reconsider after the doctor undergoes a mental examination. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports prosecutors told Judge Breland Hilburn that a bed is open for Smith at the State Hospital in Whitfield. They have not said when he might be [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 7,2013
Tags: bench, case, court, election politics, judicial, justice, lawsuit, nonprofit, politician, sue, vote, voter, voter roll, Voting
JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY and WALTHALL COUNTY — A nonprofit group has filed a federal lawsuit that claims Jefferson Davis and Walthall counties have more registered voters on the books than residents eligible to vote. The Hattiesburg American reports the American Civil Rights Union sued the counties’ election commissions in U.S. District Court late last month. The [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 6,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, breach of contract, case, contract, court, doctor, health, health care, hearing, hospital, judicial, judiciary, justice, lawsuit, medical, medicine, physician, ruling
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear oral arguments June 5 in a Jackson hospital’s appeal of a $2.27 million judgment for a doctor in a breach of contract lawsuit. Dr. Adolfo Morales, an ophthalmologist, had alleged Central Mississippi Medical Center breached a physician recruitment contract in 2004, which would have allowed him to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 2,2013
Tags: attempted assassination, bench, court, crime, detention, detonate, elected official, hearing, judge, law, legal, letter, mail, poison, politician, Politics, post, President, public official, ricin, Senator
TUPELO — The first time James Everett Dutshcke’s name came up in court regarding ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others, he wasn’t the man charged in the case. And it was a defense lawyer for the first man to fall under suspicion, not the government, pointing the finger at Dutschke. That was [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 24,2013
Tags: bench, decision, judge, judicial, juducuary, justice, media, newspaper, public records, ruling, state agency
BILOXI — Chancery Judge Jennifer Schloegel has ruled she cannot force the Mississippi Department of Resources to provide the Sun Herald records the agency no longer possesses. Schloegel ruled the newspaper would need to add the State Auditor’s Office as a defendant in a public records lawsuit it filed against the DMR. The Sun Herald [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 22,2013
Tags: bench, bribe, bribery, case, court, elected official, executive, judge, judicial, judiciary, law enforcement, legal, mayor, politician. public official, trial
VICKSBURG — A lawyer for Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield has asked a federal judge to delay his trial on a federal bribery charge. Winfield is charged with seeking $10,000 in cash in exchange for a city contract. He has pleaded not guilty. The trial is scheduled for June 3. Winfield’s lawyer says in a court [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 18,2013
Tags: auditor, bench, circuit clerk, city government, countersuit, elected official, election, itics, judge, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, pay, pol, politician, public official, salary, state agency, vote, voter, Voting
VICKSBURG — Trading one debt in the circuit clerk’s office to pay off another in time for Circuit Clerk Shelly Ashley-Palmertree to win a third term was a big deal to her in 2011. So much so, that it was written in a letter to state auditors agreeing to the swap. “Pursuant to our phone [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2013
Tags: attorney, bench, bribe, bribery, court, judge, judicial, justice, law, lawyer, legal, prison
OXFORD — A judge has granted the request by disbarred Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs to return to federal prison to resume serving his sentence on a judicial corruption conviction. Scruggs has been free on $2 million bond since December while appealing the 2009 conviction, but a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2013
Tags: author, bench, case, copyright, copyright infringement, court, film, judge, judicial, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, motion picture, movie, novel, novelist, quote, trial, write, writer
OXFORD — A lawsuit filed by William Faulkner’s heirs over a quote in the Woody Allen film “Midnight in Paris” has been scheduled for trial April 7, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Oxford. The Faulkner estate sued Sony Pictures Classics Inc. in October 2011, saying the company infringed on copyright when actor Owen Wilson [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2013
Tags: abortion, anti-abortion, baby, bench, birth, court, decision, health, health care, judge, judicial, justice, law, legal, license, medical, medicine, pregnancy, pregnant, public health, ruling, state law
JACKSON — Mississippi’s only abortion clinic continued seeing patients yesterday, the day after a federal judge temporarily stopped the state from closing it. Several people wearing florescent yellow vests labeled “Clinic Escort” helped women find parking places and walked with them into the cherry pink building in a Jackson retail district. Outside an iron fence [...] [...]
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