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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]
12 Nov 2010, 7:05 pm by Curt Crowley
A Mississippi disability lawyer should only charge you a fee if he wins back benefits for you.The amount of the attorneys fee is set by federal law. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 10:24 am
The most recent Mississippi Law Journal includes a symposium titled "Independent State Grounds: Should State Courts Depart From the Fourth Amendment in Construing Their Own Constitutions, and if so, on What Basis Beyond Simple Disagreement with the United States Supreme... [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 11:42 pm
Mississippi state courts are in an unholy uproar over a bribery scandal relating to one of the state's top plaintiff's lawyers, Dickie Scruggs, and claims of payoffs to state judges. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 9:00 am by law librarian
Medgar Evers was a black civil rights activist who was murdered in Mississippi in 1963. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 12:51 pm by Steve Hall
"Barbour's pardons stir outrage in Mississippi," by Judy Keen for USA Today. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 4:12 am by clarence
It is not possible for an adult over the age of 21 to have their record cleared of a DUI conviction in Mississippi. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 11:00 am by Benjamin Tejes
Before you decide whether filing bankruptcy in Mississippi is right for you, you may want to consider alternatives to filing Chapter 7 or Chapter 13. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 6:11 pm by Reproductive Rights
Clarionledger.com: Mississippi voters to decide when life begins: Abortion foes have secured enough signatures on a petition to get an initiative on the 2011 ballot to define life as beginning at the point of conception Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann... [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 10:10 am by Kasey Tuttle
Currently Mississippi has put all executions on hold due to its exhausted supply of drugs to perform lethal injections. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 10:19 am by LaJuana Davis
The Mississippi Law Journal's symposium edition focusing on education law is now available at 83 Miss. [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 9:16 am by Benjamin Minegar
[JURIST] Mississippi lawmakers on Tuesday passed the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act [SB 2681, PDF], pursuant to which the state would be prohibited from taking action that "burdens" a citizen's right to religious exercise if Governor Phil Bryant [official website] signs the measure into law. [read post]
9 Sep 2016, 12:52 pm by Alexis Wheeler
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi [website] on Thursday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a challenge to the constitutionality of the Mississippi state flag. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 6:16 am by Michael Haggerson
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi [official website] on Wednesday extended his prior injunction blocking a controversial Mississippi abortion law [HB 1390 materials] that was scheduled to go into effect July 1. [read post]
9 May 2016, 12:17 pm by Jaclyn Belczyk
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Mississippi [advocacy websites] filed a federal lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Monday challenging Mississippi's controversial House Bill 1523 [materials]. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 7:29 am by Saheli Chakrabarty
[JURIST] The Mississippi House of Representatives voted 70-47 Thursday to approve a controversial immigration reform bill [HB 488 materials]. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 10:59 am by Taylor Brailey
[JURIST] Two same-sex couples filed [complaint, PDF] a lawsuit against the state of Mississippi on Monday challenging the state's same-sex marriage ban. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 11:03 am
I went to college and law school (7 years total) and then had to pass the Mississippi Bar Exam in order to practice law in this state. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 12:30 pm by Lyle Denniston
” The Gaines ruling, it added, “locks the gate for Mississippi to escape to another state’s protective umbrella and thus requires us to conduct the undue burden inquiry by looking only at the ability of Mississippi women to exercise their rights within Mississippi’s borders. [read post]