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25 Feb 2008, 8:40 am
State attorneys general often abuse their power. [read post]
2 Mar 2014, 12:38 pm
Now this is bound to end well: Mississippi lawmakers vote to give Attorney General Jim Hood, a frequent mentionee in this space, his own strike forces [Radley Balko, AP] Tweet Tags: attorneys general, Jim Hood, Mississippi, policeWhen state attorneys general go paramilitary is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
16 Jun 2007, 11:37 am
"Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood sued State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. on Monday, claiming the company failed to honor an agreement for a mass settlement of claims over Hurricane Katrina damage. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 3:00 am
In this case, the District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi found that an action brought by Mississippi’s Attorney General on behalf of the State of Mississippi, as well as individual, Mississippi consumers, did not fall within the scope of CAFA’s “general public” exception. [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 12:13 pm
State Farm Insurance Cos. agrees to pay $74 million to settle a complaint filed by the Mississippi attorney general over its handling of homeowner policies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.State Farm had previously refused to comply with a January agreement requiring the insurer to reevaluate homeowner claims. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 8:38 pm
[JURIST] The Mississippi Supreme Court [official website] heard arguments Wednesday in a challenge by the State Auditor to the state Attorney General [official websites] practice of paying fees to hired private counsel directly out of litigation awards. [read post]
6 Sep 2020, 5:13 pm
The Mississippi Attorney General agreed. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 6:21 am
Last Friday I dialed the conference call number for Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's press conference and listened in amazement as an elected state official called State Farm "a cult," "decadent" and "robber barons. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 9:10 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi [official website] Tuesday remanded to state court [order, PDF] the Mississippi attorney general's lawsuit against the administrator of the British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] $20 billion Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] reparations fund, the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) [official website]. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 11:42 am
This just in - Eli Lilly has received summary judgment against the Mississippi Attorney General's consumer fraud lawsuit in all respects - except one. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 8:56 am
On June 11, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood filed a civil action again State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. in the Circuit Court of Hinds County, Mississippi, alleging breach of contract, bad faith breach of contract, and breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing. [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… [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 11:17 am
Last week, 49 State Attorneys General joined in a National Association of Attorneys General letter authored by Florida, Iowa, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee responding to the FTC’s Request for Public Comment concerning impersonation scams. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 11:10 am
Mississippi will switch to a different sedative drug for three executions the state is seeking to carry out in the next month, state Attorney General Jim Hood told Reuters on Tuesday. [read post]
10 Oct 2006, 12:20 am
The lawsuit was filed against the offices of the Mississippi Secretary of State [official website] and the Mississippi Attorney General [official website] on behalf of two state [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 8:38 am
The State of Mississippi has sued Experian alleging violations of the FCRA and its own state law. [read post]
24 Jul 2021, 10:47 am
The attorney general of Mississippi filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Thursday in the case of Dobbs v. [read post]
30 Oct 2015, 7:55 am
” An excerpt: In 2000, the Dollar General Corporation entered into a series of agreements with the Mississippi Band Choctaw Indians to open a Dollar General store on the Tribe’s lands in Mississippi. [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]
11 Apr 2016, 2:03 pm
The injunction would have prevented Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood from enforcing his massively large and demanding administrative subpoena against Google. [read post]
