by Associated Press Published: April 3,2013
Tags: agriculture, bench, Chicken, court, crime, export, exporter, exporting, falsifying records, food, food safety, fraud, international trade, judge, justice, justicve, law, legal, poultry, sentencing
GULFPORT — A plea hearing has been rescheduled for a man indicted in an alleged conspiracy to falsify the temperatures of chicken exported from Mississippi to Russia. The Sun Herald reports U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. set a new plea date of May 20 for Terry White. White is one of three men indicted [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, case, clinic, contract, court, health, health care, hospital, judicial, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, medical, medicine, outpatient, surgery, trial
CANTON — St. Dominic Health Systems can prove during a trial that it has a binding contract to buy an outpatient surgery clinic in Canton that was improperly sold to a competitor, attorneys for the hospital system told the state Supreme Court yesterday. St. Dominic attorney Sheldon Alston told the high court that a Madison [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, bench, court, crime, drug addicition, finance, financial institution, fine, jail, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, prison, sentence, steal, stealing, teller, theft, thief, vault
GULFPORT — A federal judge has sentenced Ashley Ann Keel to 18 months in prison and ordered her to make restitution of the $80,980 she stole when she was vault teller for a Hancock Bank branch in Biloxi. The Sun Herald reports U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sentenced Keel yesterday and also ordered drug [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, conviction, court, crime, false tax returns, federal court, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, panel, sentence, tax, tax return, tax return preparer
OXFORD — A federal appeals court panel has upheld the conviction of an Oxford tax return preparer for filing dozens of false returns. Thelbert Lamont Lesure was sentenced to three years in prison in 2012 for filing false tax returns. Lesure was indicted on 21 counts. He pleaded guilty one count of knowingly preparing and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 27,2013
Tags: bench, case, clinic, court, health, health care, judge, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, medical, medicine, outpatient, surgery, trial
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a lawsuit involving St. Dominic Health Systems’ efforts to buy an outpatient clinic in Madison County. A judge ruled against St. Dominic in 2011. In 2008, St. Dominic agreed to buy the ambulatory surgery center for $800,000. Although the center was no longer in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 22,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, case, cellphone, communications, court, judicial, judiciary, lawsuit, panel, ruling, telecommunications, telephone, trial, utility
RIPLEY — A federal court panel has ruled against Dixie-Net Communications Inc. in its appeal of an adverse ruling over in-state fees. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by a Mississippi federal judge against Ripley-based Dixie-Net, a telecom business. At issue was whether calls made under AT&T’s Area [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 22,2013
Tags: bench, case, Commercial Real Estate, community development, court, developer, development, home, homeowner, house, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, movie, noise, residence, resident, residential real estate, theater, traffic, trial
OLIVE BRANCH — An Olive Branch community remains in the lurch about whether a controversial movie theater will be constructed near its homes. The Commercial Appeal reports the developer has filed an appeal in DeSoto County Circuit Court about Board of Aldermen decisions he said are preventing a theater from being developed near Wedgewood subdivision. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 21,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, bench, court, crime, embezzlement, finance, financial institution, law, legal, prison, restitution, sentence, steal, teller, theft, vault
PICAYUNE — A former teller at a Picayune bank has been ordered to repay more than $117,000 she helped steal from the bank’s vault over a year’s time. U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden also sentenced 43-year-old Debra Mitchell, of Carriere, to six months in prison, six months of house arrest and two years of post-release [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 15,2013
Tags: agenct, appeal, author, bench, blog, book, case, court, judicial, judoiciary, justice, law, law enforcement, lawsuit, legal, media, prosecutor, tort, trial
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court has reinstated the appeal of a lawsuit against a former federal prosecutor and a political blogger over a book they co-wrote about the judicial corruption case involving former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs. In 2011, FBI agent Hal Neilson sued authors Tom Dawson and Alan Lange and a publishing company. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 14,2013
Tags: annex, bench, Commercial Real Estate, construction, court, health, health care, hospital, judge, land, law, legal, medical, medicine, property
OXFORD — A Lafayette County judge has ruled that the land that a company has selected as the location of its new $300-million hospital will be included in the Oxford city limits. Since Chancery Judge Ed Roberts approved the annexation last month, some objectors have dropped out of the case, but three others — Kenneth [...] [...]