by Associated Press Published: November 14,2012
Tags: bench, case, construction, construction material, court, decision, defective, drywall, home, homebuilder, homebuilding, homeowner, house, judge, judicial, judiciary, law, lawsuit, legal, real estate, residence, ruling, trial
NEW ORLEANS — Attorneys for thousands of Gulf Coast property owners urged a federal judge yesterday to give his final approval to a proposed class-action settlement that calls for a Chinese drywall manufacturer to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to repair homes damaged by its product. U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon in New Orleans [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 12,2012
Tags: bench, decision, intellectual property, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, pirate, pirating, retail, ruling, sale, sell, sentence, sentencing
HAZLEHURST — A Hazlehurt man has been sentenced to serve 15 years in prison for selling pirated DVDs and CDs. Attorney General Jim Hood says 37-year-old Patrick Lashun King was sentenced to 18 years with three years suspended last week. Hood says King pleaded guilty to six counts of selling pirated DVDs and CDs before [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 9,2012
Tags: black market, cigarette, contraband, court, decision, federal government, illegal, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, ruling, sentence, sentencing, tobacco
OXFORD — An Arkansas man has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the trafficking of contraband cigarettes. James B. Trosper, of Rogers Ark., pleaded guilty in 2011 to three counts involving the scheme. WTVA-TV reports Trosper was sentenced in federal court in Oxford. Prosecutors said Trosper and others were involved [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 8,2012
Tags: accident, bench, class action, court, death, decision, disaster, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fairness, fatality, fuel, gasoline, hearing, hospitality, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, ruling, seafood, tourism, tourist, trial, vacation, visitor, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in New Orleans is set to preside over a fairness hearing for a proposed class-action settlement of economic damage claims spawned by BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. During today’s hearing, the London-based oil giant and a team of private plaintiffs’ attorneys will urge U.S. District [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 6,2012
Tags: appeal, athlete, athletics, bench, coach, court, decision, discrimination, employer, employment, higher education, job, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, reverse, ruling, sexual harrassment, sports, trial, university
HATTIESBURG — The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled against three former University of Southern Mississippi soccer coaches who claimed sexual harassment and sexual discrimination. The Hattiesburg American reports the ruling reversed a 2008 Forrest County Circuit verdict that awarded a total of $1.2 million in damages to the coaches. The Supreme Court found insufficient evidence [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 31,2012
Tags: appeal, builder, building, construction, contractor, court, decision, homebuilder, judge, judicial, judiciary, law, legal, media, ruling, station, television
GULFPORT — The state Court of Appeals has declined to take a second look at its May ruling that a Gulf Coast television station did not defame two businessmen. Gerald “Heath” Hudson of Moss Point and his father, Arthur “Gerald” Hudson of Lucedale, sued WLOX-TV in 2006 in Harrison County Circuit Court. A Harrison County [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 31,2012
Tags: attorney, bench, court, crime, criminal, decision, embezzlement, forger, forgery, habitual offender, judge, judicial, judiciary, law, law firm, lawyer, legal, prison, ruling, secretary, sentence
BATESVILLE — A 40-year-old Sardis woman has received a 10-year prison sentence after a Panola County Circuit Court jury convicted her of forging a court document. The Commercial Appeal reports Samantha Johnson was convicted after fewer than 15 minutes of deliberation. Judge Jimmy McClure immediately sentenced her to 10 years for composing the fictitious Chancery [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 18,2012
Tags: appeal, baby, case, court, damage, decision, energy, fetus, fuel, fume, health, health care, lawsuit, medical, medicine, ruling, trial, verdict
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Dec. 3 in Texaco’s appeal of a $19-million verdict for five women who alleged the oil company was responsible for their children born with disabilities and illnesses. A Hinds County jury ruled for the woman in 2010. Texas appealed the verdict. Supreme [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 18,2012
Tags: appeal, certificate of need, court, decision, health, health care, hospital, judge, justice, law, legal, medicial, medicine, ruling
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its ruling that the University of Mississippi Medical Center must follow the state’s certificate-of-need law. The court yesterday denied requests to revisit its June ruling. Mississippi’s CON law limits where hospitals can locate and expand and what services they can provide. The court ruled UMMC, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 17,2012
Tags: bench, board of supervisors, color, county government, decision, district, election, federal court, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, party, Politics, poll, race, redistricting, request, rule, ruling, supervisor, vote, voter, Voting
JACKSON — A federal judge has denied a request by Hinds County Supervisor Phil Fisher and the Republican Party to bar the county from using its new redistricting plan in November elections, which involves only the five local election commission members. Still pending is the original lawsuit filed in September, which asks that the new [...] [...]
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