Mississippi Business Journal » lawyer http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Doctor’s murder-for-hire case postponed, mental evaluation pending http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/21/doctors-murder-for-hire-case-postponed-mental-evaluation-pending/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=doctors-murder-for-hire-case-postponed-mental-evaluation-pending http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/21/doctors-murder-for-hire-case-postponed-mental-evaluation-pending/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 14:11:35 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=75250 GREENWOOD — A trial in the murder-for-hire case against a Greenwood oncologist has been postponed indefinitely. Circuit Judge Breland Hilburn issued the order this past week because the court is waiting on Dr. Arnold Smith’s evaluation at a state mental facility. The case was to have gone to trial yesterday in Leflore County Circuit Court. [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/21/doctors-murder-for-hire-case-postponed-mental-evaluation-pending/feed/ 0 Brown would make history if confirmed as judge http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/17/brown-would-make-history-if-confirmed-as-judge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brown-would-make-history-if-confirmed-as-judge http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/17/brown-would-make-history-if-confirmed-as-judge/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 11:08:02 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=74925 JACKSON — President Barack Obama has nominated attorney Debra M. Brown to be a U.S. District judge for northern Mississippi. If confirmed, Brown would be the first African-American woman to serve as a federal district judge in the state, said a spokesman for U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.). “I congratulate Debra Brown on her historic [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/17/brown-would-make-history-if-confirmed-as-judge/feed/ 0 Judge denies bond in doctor/lawyer murder-for-hire case http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/12/judge-denies-bond-in-doctorlawyer-murder-for-hire-case/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judge-denies-bond-in-doctorlawyer-murder-for-hire-case http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/12/judge-denies-bond-in-doctorlawyer-murder-for-hire-case/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 20:40:45 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=74669 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 [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/12/judge-denies-bond-in-doctorlawyer-murder-for-hire-case/feed/ 0 Family of murdered mayoral candidate wants federal investigation http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/09/family-of-murdered-mayoral-candidate-want-federal-investigation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-of-murdered-mayoral-candidate-want-federal-investigation http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/09/family-of-murdered-mayoral-candidate-want-federal-investigation/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 12:47:05 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=74463 CLARKSDALE — Relatives of a slain Mississippi mayoral candidate are renewing their push for a federal investigation amid their complaints that local officials are withholding information about the case. Clarksdale mayoral candidate Marco McMillian’s nude and battered body was found Feb. 27 near a Mississippi River levee. The case drew national attention after his campaign [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/09/family-of-murdered-mayoral-candidate-want-federal-investigation/feed/ 0 Ex-attorney granted request to return to prison http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/17/ex-attorney-granted-request-to-return-to-prison/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ex-attorney-granted-request-to-return-to-prison http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/17/ex-attorney-granted-request-to-return-to-prison/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:56:53 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=73516 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 [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/17/ex-attorney-granted-request-to-return-to-prison/feed/ 0 Attorneys for lab owner to ask for dismissal of charges http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/17/attorneys-for-lab-owner-to-ask-for-dismissal-of-charges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=attorneys-for-lab-owner-to-ask-for-dismissal-of-charges http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/17/attorneys-for-lab-owner-to-ask-for-dismissal-of-charges/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:51:30 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=73431 WATER VALLEY — A hearing is scheduled today on a motion to dismiss the charges against a laboratory owner charged with faking wastewater samples she was hired to test for a company in Mississippi. Tennie White, who owns Mississippi Environmental Analytical Laboratories Inc., was indicted Nov. 7 in U.S. District Court in Jackson. The indictment [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/17/attorneys-for-lab-owner-to-ask-for-dismissal-of-charges/feed/ 0 Disbarred lawyer asks to return to prison pending appeal http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/16/scruggs-asks-to-return-to-prison-pending-appeal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scruggs-asks-to-return-to-prison-pending-appeal http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/16/scruggs-asks-to-return-to-prison-pending-appeal/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:57:45 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=73392 OXFORD — Disbarred Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs wants to return to federal prison pending an appeal of 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 of Appeals recently rejected his arguments. In a [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/16/scruggs-asks-to-return-to-prison-pending-appeal/feed/ 2 Firm named year’s best in family law by magazine http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/11/firm-named-years-best-in-family-law-by-magazine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=firm-named-years-best-in-family-law-by-magazine http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/11/firm-named-years-best-in-family-law-by-magazine/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:37:58 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=73054 JACKSON — Mark Chinn and Chinn & Associates, PC have been designated 2013’s “Family Law Firm of the Year in Mississippi” by Corporate INTL Magazine. This is the fourth year in a row that Chinn & Associates has received this distinction.

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/11/firm-named-years-best-in-family-law-by-magazine/feed/ 0 Class-action complaint filed over proposed bank merger http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/10/class-action-complaint-filed-over-proposed-bank-merger/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=class-action-complaint-filed-over-proposed-bank-merger http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/10/class-action-complaint-filed-over-proposed-bank-merger/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:28:01 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=73014 KOSCIUSKO and TUPELO — Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, LLP of San Diego has started a class action, through an amended complaint filed on April 8 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on behalf of all holders of First M&F Corporation (FMFC) common stock as of Feb. 7, 2013, [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/10/class-action-complaint-filed-over-proposed-bank-merger/feed/ 0 Judge rejects BP’s request to block oil spill payouts http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/05/judge-to-hear-bps-request-to-block-oil-spill-payouts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judge-to-hear-bps-request-to-block-oil-spill-payouts http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/05/judge-to-hear-bps-request-to-block-oil-spill-payouts/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:47:18 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=72800 NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has rejected BP’s request to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses who claim the company’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money. Before a hearing today, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier already had upheld court-appointed claims administrator Patrick Juneau’s [...]

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