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27 May 2008, 11:07 am
Looking more closely at them would have done a lot to explain more about how Dickie Scruggs' brain works. [read post]
23 May 2008, 8:39 am
First, after an initially unsuccessful effort by State Farm late last year to disqualify Dickie Scruggs from Katrina litigation on ethics grounds, Scruggs in essence disqualified himself on, uh, ethics grounds. [read post]
22 May 2008, 10:03 am
Bryant, represented separately by John Keker, the same lawyer who represented Dickie Scruggs, agreed to a confidential settlement with Mattel — leaving Mattel and MGA to duke it out. [read post]
21 May 2008, 11:55 pm
In reality, the only other examples of such prosecutions include Mississippi lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and Melvyn Weiss and William Lerach, securities class action lawyers at the New York firm formerly known as Milberg Weiss. [read post]
21 May 2008, 7:00 am
Dicky must have three meals daily... [read post]
20 May 2008, 1:16 am
When the Rigsbys sang for ABC, With some quotes they borrowed from Dickie, And some files that came from piracy.And as we reached the motion stage, My hands were clenched in fists of rage,No story we could tell,Could break that Snake Farm spell.And as our briefs climbed higher in the fight, We just couldn't seem to get it right, I saw bloggers laughing with delight,The day the Qui Tam died. [read post]
19 May 2008, 8:52 am
As you may recall, State Farm issued a number of discovery requests in this case last year when it noticed the depositions of Dickie and Zach Scruggs, and these depositions have been held up while various other things happened: Scruggs got indicted and pleaded guilty; Scruggs withdrew from the case and all other cases; the Katrina(less) Litigation Group, the rump successor to the Scruggs(less) Katrina Group, was disqualified from the case for ethics reasons: … [read post]
18 May 2008, 9:41 am
We haven’t heard from the likes of lawyers Mel Weiss, Dickie Scruggs or Bill Lerach for some time, mostly because the drama surrounding their criminal cases has all but dwindled down to nothing. [read post]
14 May 2008, 1:12 am
" I said, "Blame it on Dickie Scruggs. [read post]
12 May 2008, 9:12 am
The usually fabulous Jerry Mitchell has a scoop in yesterday's Clarion-Ledger in the Dickie Scruggs case, but it's marred by two problems. [read post]
12 May 2008, 8:00 am
As reported in this Clarion Ledger story, the Department of Justice is reportedly looking at bringing RICO charges against Dicky Scruggs related to the bribery of Judge Bobby DeLaughter in the Wilson v. [read post]
12 May 2008, 1:33 am
Dickie Scruggs, after a long absence, is back in the news. [read post]
8 May 2008, 11:18 am
The thirty-one desks in the Senate chamber are filled with legislators, judges from the Court of Criminal Appeals, law enforcement personnel, staff from innocence projects, policy makers, judges, State Bar of Texas officials (former SBoT President Martha Dickie), and criminal justice reform advocates(Edwin Colfax and Andrea Marsh) . [read post]
2 May 2008, 10:25 am
A good way to finish out the week -- once again it's Trailer Time, where we catch up on another episode of the Trailer Lawyer News, with that beloved and familiar cast of characters: the Rigsby Sisters, Dickie Scruggs, Trailer Todd, Trailer Tony, Trailer Chip and Trailer Mary, and of course, Snake Farm. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 1:09 am
"Immediately" in this context does not refer to, as you might expect, immediately, but instead means "some months after they admittedly had begun engaging in covert spying on behalf of Dickie Scruggs. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 1:33 am
First, let's look at this excerpt:The sisters said they were naive in February 2006 when they first reported in a meeting with policyholders' attorney Dickie Scruggs what they called underhanded tactics at the State Farm Catastrophe Office. [read post]
27 Apr 2008, 3:23 pm
David Rossmiller's coverage of State Farm's Insurance coverage of Katrina victims and the resulting Dickie Scruggs affair drew national attention. [read post]
23 Apr 2008, 10:05 am
Better do a quick post this morning on this Anita Lee story in the Sun Herald on a motion for sanctions against Dickie Scruggs in the Wilson fee dispute case, the one in which Joey Langston pleaded guilty to trying to influence a judge. [read post]
22 Apr 2008, 4:08 pm
An interesting editorial in the Mississippi Democrat argues: "The Scruggs Katrina Group may have to pay a Jackson law firm punitive damages in the continuing saga in which high-powered lawyer Dickie Scruggs and others have pleaded guilty in connection with conspiring to bribe a judge.For years trial lawyers have argued that big rich companies should pay big settlements over and above any actual damages in order to 'get their attention' and 'make them think twice'… [read post]
21 Apr 2008, 10:20 pm
" You may remember Dickie Scruggs had to withdraw from McIntosh and all Katrina cases after he was indicted (following a big dust-up with the other members of the then Scruggs Katrina Group over whether he was actually going to do so). [read post]
