Posts Tagged ‘logging’

Supreme Court declines to hear forester’s appeal

by Associated Press Published: January 18,2013

Tags: appeal, bench, case, commission, court, employment law, fire, firing, forest, forester, forestry, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, logging, lumber, state agency, terminate, termination, timber, tree, wood

FRANKLIN COUNTY — The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a Franklin County forester fired for opposing a logging plan pushed by the state. The Supreme Court let stand a ruling by the Court of Appeals which last year sided with the Mississippi Forestry Commission. The Appeals Court decision overturned a [...] [...]

Court upholds firing of forester who opposed state logging plan

by Associated Press Published: June 21,2012

Tags: agriculture, appeal, bench, court, decision, fire, fired, firing, forest, forester, forestry, judge, judicial, judiciary, log, logger, logging, lumber, ruling, terminate, termination, timber, tree, wood

FRANKLIN COUNTY — The Mississippi Court of Appeals has upheld the firing of a Franklin County forester who opposed a logging plan pushed by the state. The decision overturned a 2010 order by Franklin County judge who found the Mississippi Forestry Commission’s firing of Stephen Oglesby was wrong. According to court records, Oglesby was at [...] [...]

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