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SoS delivers Point Cadet settlement check to USM

MBJ Staff — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:11:24 +0000

HATTIESBURG — Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has presented the University of Southern Mississippi with a check for $432,307 in the President’s Conference Room at the Aubrey K. Lucas Administration Building on the University’s Hattiesburg campus. The funds are part of a settlement agreement reached in 2002 resolving long standing land issues on a piece [...]

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SEC finally releases Morgan Keegan settlement plan

MBJ Staff — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:18:56 +0000

JACKSON — After repeated requests, the Securities and Exchange Commission has finally announced the proposed plan to distribute Morgan Keegan settlement funds to Mississippi investors, according to the Office of Secretary of State. “For two years, the SEC ignored the pleas of investors to release this money. They desperately need their settlement funds,” says Secretary [...]

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Property owner settles housing discrimination lawsuit

Associated Press — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:40:33 +0000

MAGEE — The U.S. Department of Justice says a Mississippi company will pay a $27,000 settlement in a housing discrimination lawsuit. M.M. and S. Inc. agreed, according to a press release, to pay $20,000 to a family for refusing to rent a home to them, and a civil penalty of $7,000 to the United States. [...]

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Airport, ex-director settle lawsuit just before trial

Associated Press — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:28:50 +0000

TUPELO — A lawsuit against the Tupelo Regional Airport Authority has been settled just days ahead of the scheduled trial. Chief U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills dismissed a suit by Reid Dawe, a former director of operations at Tupelo Regional Airport. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Dawe claimed his rights were violated when he [...]

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Judge rejects BP’s request to block oil spill payouts

Associated Press — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:47:18 +0000

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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Debt collector, law firm settles FTC charges

Associated Press — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:28:48 +0000

OXFORD — A debt buyer and debt collection law firm based in Mississippi have agreed to pay nearly $800,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges they misled consumers into paying unnecessary fees and falsely threatened them with lawsuits. The FTC said debt buyer Security Credit Services, LLC and Jacob Law Group, PLLC charged consumers nationwide [...]

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Hospital trustees ask for meeting with supervisors

Associated Press — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:58:05 +0000

NATCHEZ — The Adams County Board of Supervisors expects to meet this week with Natchez Regional Medical Center’s board of trustees. Supervisors tell The Natchez Democrat the meeting is at the request of the hospital board, and will be used to discuss the county-owned hospital’s plans for the future and might include discussions of the [...]

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State to get nearly $115K in settlement with Google

Associated Press — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:17:23 +0000

JACKSON — Mississippi will receive $114,995 from Google Inc. as part of a settlement with the Internet giant over the collection of emails, passwords and other sensitive information sent over wireless networks around the world. The state’s share of the payment was announced Tuesday by Attorney General Jim Hood. Hood says the settlement is the [...]

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BP fails to reach settlement in advance of civil trial

Associated Press — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:04:40 +0000

GULF OF MEXICO — BP acknowledged today it had failed to reach a settlement in advance of next week’s civil trial on the Deepwater Horizon accident and is ready to defend itself vigorously against allegations of gross negligence in the U.S.’s biggest environmental disaster. Rupert Bondy, the group’s general counsel, said in a statement that [...]

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State reaches settlement with failed Twin Creeks

Associated Press — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:20:28 +0000

SENATOBIA — The state of Mississippi settled a lawsuit Tuesday with Twin Creeks, a California solar panel company that went out of business after the state spent $27.7 million to construct a building for the business in Senatobia and buy equipment, The Associated Press has learned. “I believe we will make a full recovery of [...]

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