by Ted Carter Published: October 16,2011
A Mississippi-based organization that advocates limited government has weighed in on the Mississippi Public Employee Personnel System solvency issue with a call for rollbacks in retirement benefits for some state workers. In a legal brief submitted to a study commission created to study possible reform of PERS, the Mississippi Center for Public Policy challenges state [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: August 7,2011
Tags: Attorney General Jim Hood, certificate of need, CON, LLC, Mississippi Department of Health and Dialysis Solutions, Supreme Court
A month after it took effect, a law designed to streamline the appeals process related to certificates of need is having its constitutionality questioned by the Mississippi Supreme Court. The court entered an order July 28 asking for briefs from Attorney General Jim Hood, the Mississippi Department of Health and Dialysis Solutions, LLC, that will address [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 13,2010
BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal regulatory judge has ruled that electric utility Entergy Corp. overcharged customers in four states by selling higher priced power to its own subsidiaries. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Monday announced last week’s ruling by an administrative law judge for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The ruling can be appealed [...] [...]
by Amy McCullough Published: June 20,2010
Tags: Attorney General Jim Hood, Hospital competition, JACKSON, UMC, University of Mississippi Medical Center
But health department may have the ability to make exceptions to the rule Seven Jackson area hospitals urging the Attorney General to withdraw his opinion exempting University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) from state certificate of need (CON) law got what they wanted — sort of. In a June 9 decision, Attorney General Jim Hood said that [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: March 1,2010
Tags: Attorney General Jim Hood, energy, Entegy, nuclear ebergy, utilities
JACKSON — In the wake of the Vermont Senate’s decision last week to shut down an Entergy Corp.-owned nuclear plant, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is questioning the company’s recent transfer of $1.3 billion from its parent company that oversees operations in Mississippi to its troubled nuclear program. The Vermont Senate, in [...] [...]
by Ross Reily Published: September 24,2009
Tags: Attorney General Jim Hood, Bill Luckett, Haley Barbour, Heather Hudson, Mississippi governor, Politics
In a story that will be published in the Mississippi Business Journal Friday, Clarksdale attorney Bill Luckett confirms that he is going to run for governor in 2011. “I am running,” Luckett told the Mississippi Business Journal Thursday. It’s not that I plan to run or that I am thinking about it. I am running. “I think [...] [...]
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