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27 Mar 2016, 11:48 am
Attorney General Jim Hood [official website] stated [press release] earlier this year that he planned on pursuing alternatives to lethal injection for the death penalty in the state. [read post]
18 May 2012, 6:14 am
"Court denies motion to reconsider pardons": Today's edition of The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi contains an article that begins, "The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied Attorney General Jim Hood's motion to reconsider a ruling that validated then-Gov. [read post]
17 Aug 2005, 2:42 am
[JURIST] Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official profile] is seeking to revoke the bail of convicted murderer and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen [JURIST news archives] because of pre-trial death threats made by his brother. [read post]
15 Sep 2005, 2:40 pm
[JURIST] Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official website] announced Thursday that his office had filed a civil suit [PDF complaint] against five national insurance companies - Mutual Insurance Co., State Farm Fire and Casualty Co., Allstate Property and Casualty Co., the United Services Automobile Association and Mississippi Farm Bureau Insurance - seeking a declaration that provisions [read post]
10 Apr 2016, 6:30 pm
Mississippi’s Attorney General, Jim Hood, began investigating Google in 2012 for failing to do enough to prevent crime. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 9:19 am
[JURIST] Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official website] filed a lawsuit against State Farm [corporate website] Monday, alleging that the insurance company committed a bad faith breach of contract [press release, PDF] related to a settlement reached [JURIST report] on January 23 regarding Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive] policies. [read post]
27 Jan 2007, 9:58 am
Senter, Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday rejected [opinion, PDF] for the time being a proposed settlement [JURIST report] reached between the State Farm [official website] insurance company and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official website] on behalf of hundreds of Mississippi policy holders whose claims were denied [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 12:44 pm
State Farm Insurance Company has agreed to pay an additional $74 million to settle a lawsuit regarding its handling of Hurricane Katrina claims in Mississippi, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced Wednesday reports the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. [read post]
10 Apr 2016, 11:20 am
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official website] began investigating Google in 2012 for failing to do enough to prevent crime. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 10:10 am
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official website] stated Wednesday that he plans to ask lawmakers to approve the firing squad, electrocution or nitrogen gas as alternate methods of execution [press release] if the state prohibits lethal injections. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 11:54 am
"It was never about the money for me, this litigation," said Dickie Scruggs, who stands to collect between $26 million and $46 million from a settlement accomplished by the use of the state attorney general, Jim Hood, to extort State Farm with the threat of criminal proceedings for daring to enforce their flood exclusion clauses in their contracts. [read post]
9 May 2005, 6:24 am
[JURIST] Mississippi state Attorney General Jim Hood [official website] announced Monday that under the terms of a settlement agreement with the state telecommunications giant MCI [corporate website] will hand over $100M cash to cover back taxes owed by its predecessor, WorldCom, as well as turn over WorldCom's former headquarters in downtown Jackson. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 8:51 am
[JURIST] Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official website] asked [cert. petition, PDF] to the US Supreme Court [official website] on Wednesday to allow the state to enforce an abortion law [HB 1390 text, PDF] that was declared unconstitutional by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] in 2014. [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 9:21 am
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is attempting to delay the approval of Mississippi Power Company’s IGCC coal-fired power plant. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 9:05 pm
Mississippi attorney general Jim Hood, for one [Radley Balko, earlier here, here, here] Life in America will become more drab if Campaign for Safe Cosmetics gets its way [Jeffrey Tucker via @cathyreisenwitz, earlier on "CPSIA for soap"] LSAT settled with DoJ demands re: disabled accommodation back in 2002 and again just now, and the differences between the two settlements tell a story [Daniel Fisher, earlier] Some prospective students will be losers… [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 1:14 pm
Peeking under the Hood, cont’d: Mississippi has finally passed sunshine legislation exposing to public scrutiny dealings of its attorney general with outside law firms, which can make large sums in contingency arrangements representing the state [Maggie Haberman, Politico] Not exactly unrelatedly, a Mississippi court has ruled that a settlement of the state’s case against MCI can’t funnel $14 million separately to private lawyers representing… [read post]
1 Oct 2007, 10:20 pm
" The Langston and Lundy & Davis law firms "were hired as outside counsel to represent the state by current Attorney General [Jim] Hood. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 6:20 pm
Circuit Judge Tomie Green issued an injunction late Wednesday at the request of Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood. [read post]
4 Nov 2015, 9:09 pm
[@bradheath] Mississippi voters on Tuesday returned longtime Attorney General Jim Hood to office by 56-44 margin [Radley Balko; Jackson Clarion-Ledger; earlier Balko on Hood’s spotted record as prosecutor] “No! [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 12:02 pm
NAAG President Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, whose presidential initiative for the 2014-15 year is “Protecting Our Digital Lives: New Challenges for Attorneys General,” will host the presidential initiative summit in mid-April in Biloxi, Mississippi. [read post]
