SANDERSVILLE — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he’s pursuing legal action to block a gaming development proposed by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
In a letter to Attorney General Jim Hood yesterday, Barbour said he would seek outside counsel to pursue litigation.
Barbour had asked Hood to look into the matter in June. Hood responded last [...] [...]
TUPELO — A school superintendent said in a lawsuit filed July 23 that Mississippi Democratic Party chairman Jamie Franks tried to commit extortion by pressuring the superintendent to resign over an affair with Franks’ wife.
Mike Scott was elected Lee County superintendent in 2007 as a Democrat.
Scott, who is married, said in the suit filed in [...] [...]
JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood, along with 32 state attorneys general, announced a $173-million settlement against six world-wide manufacturers of Dynamic Random Access Memory computer chips (DRAM) after the companies “devised an elaborate scheme to raise prices” on their products,” according to Hood.
The settlement requires the companies to refrain from illegal price-fixing and to [...] [...]
GULFPORT — State Farm has asked a judge to let it question former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and obtain documents he may possess related to a whistleblower lawsuit filed against the insurer over its handling of Hurricane Katrina claims.
The lawsuit was filed by Cori and Kerri Rigsby of Ocean Springs, who once worked for Alabama-based [...] [...]
PLAQUEMINE, La. — Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co., Ltd., one of the companies responsible for manufacturing defective Chinese drywall, has agreed to settle two Louisiana cases set to go to trial today in U.S. District Court Judge Eldon E. Fallon’s courtroom in New Orleans.
Plaintiffs, Paul and Celeste Clement and John Campbell, own homes that contain Chinese [...] [...]
WYOMISSING, Pa. and CAMDEN COUNTY, N.J. — Penn National Gaming Inc. has filed suit in Camden County, N.J., to force its joint venture partner in Freehold Raceway – Greenwood Racing Inc. – to compel development of an off-track wagering (OTW) location in that county.
OTW was approved in the State of New Jersey in 2001 and [...] [...]
CANTON — The Mississippi Supreme Court has allowed Health Management Associates (HMA) to intervene in a lawsuit in a Madison County Chancery Court suit between St. Dominic Health Systems and the owner of an outpatient surgery center in Canton it wants to buy.
The decision, issued this past week, doesn’t deal with the ongoing argument between [...] [...]
JACKSON — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by two Gulf Coast attorneys who had accused former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and associated law firms of using money owed to them in a scheme to bribe judges and other elected officials.
Lee Young and Charles J. Mikhail filed the lawsuit in 2009 in federal [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Tyson Foods Inc. has settled a decade-long dispute with the Labor Department by agreeing to pay workers at poultry plants for time they spend putting on and taking off protective clothing.
Federal officials have insisted that poultry companies pay employees for all hours worked, including donning and doffing sanitary gear before and after their [...] [...]
GULFPORT — A federal appeals court has dismissed an appeal of lawsuit that alleged that greenhouse gas emissions from energy and chemical companies contributed to global warming, caused sea levels to rise and added to the intensity of Hurricane Katrina.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled May 28 that it didn’t have a quorum [...] [...]
