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4 Mar 2008, 4:21 pm
How badly has Dickie Scruggs’s career gone in the last decade, post-tobacco? [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 6:42 am
  If this were granted, it would be huge -- with Zach out of the case, much of the government's leverage over Dickie Scruggs would disappear, and chances of a plea agreement with the elder Scruggs would drop significantly. [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 7:01 pm
To say things have been going downhill for famed torts lawyer Dickie Scruggs over the past few months is quite an understatement. [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 1:15 pm
  Famous rich friends of Dickie Scruggs -- it's party time! [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 9:07 pm
For those not closely following the case of Dickie Scruggs et al., you might have missed the news about the amended juror questionnaire or the government's motion for an anonymous jury. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 5:21 pm
Though we tried to log off for the night, news calls, and this time it’s good news for Dickie Scruggs. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 5:50 am
  An FBI document made public this week as part of one judicial bribery case alleges embattled plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs paid two associates to persuade Hood not to file criminal charges against State Farm Fire and Casualty Cos. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 12:05 am
  Except Dickie Scruggs, that is, as his famous, rich friends like to point out. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 8:27 pm
We all expected a Senate vote yesterday on Little Dickie Durban's Bankruptcy Reform-of-the-Reform Bill, that would allow bankruptcy judges to rewrite residential mortgage loans. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 7:44 pm
Plaintiffs lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, who sued State Farm Fire and Casualty Cos. soon after the 2005 storm, was afraid the company "was not going to settle the civil cases" if the attorney general's office filed criminal charges, according to an FBI report filed Monday in the bribery case. . . . [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 8:43 am
District Judge Neal Biggers rejected the remaining motions filed by Dickie Scruggs and his two co-defendants, son Zach and Sidney Backstrom, clearing the way for trial at the end of March on the charges related to an alleged... [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 7:18 am
  That theme is that Scruggs is too smart and sophisticated to be involved in dumb stuff like this -- it's "too dumb for Dickie," in the words of one of his famous, rich friends. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 3:39 pm
  We can talk more about these later, but here they are:Order denying motion to suppress wiretap evidence.Order denying motion to exclude extrinsic evidence of prior related acts.Order denying motion to sever Zack Scruggs and Sid Backstrom trials from trial of Dickie Scruggs.Order denying motion to dismiss indictment, motion to dismiss counts 2, 3, and 4, motion for change of venue. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 1:21 pm
Dickie Scruggs’s motion for a change of venue: Nope! [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 6:34 am
  SLF and SFIC were near a settlement, however, [Dickie Scruggs] learned that the Mississippi State Attorney Generals office had threatened to indict SFIC due to some impasses between the Attorney Generals office and SFIC. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 8:31 pm
That's become a sleazy practice in many states, and it is finally coming under scrutiny -- notably in Mississippi, home of Dickie Scruggs, Attorney General Jim Hood, and other legal pillars... [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 11:22 am
That’s become a sleazy practice in many states, and it is finally coming under scrutiny — notably in Mississippi, home of Dickie Scruggs, Attorney General Jim Hood, and other legal pillars. [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 3:21 pm
Such “outsourcing” is how Dickie Scruggs was able to pursue tobacco massive recoveries on behalf of Mississippi and how other lawyers now caught up in L’Affaire Scruggs were able to bring tax claims on behalf of the state against Worldcom. [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 4:58 am
And in the department of curious wordings, from the Jackson Clarion Ledger: "Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter has told federal authorities he became aware in 2006 that some people were trying to improperly influence him to rule in favor of lawyer Dickie Scruggs in a Hinds County legal-fees dispute. [read post]
22 Feb 2008, 5:32 am
The latest bombshell in the prosecution of Dickie Scruggs and two co-defendants on charges related to an attempted bribe of a state judge was the revelation by federal prosecutors that they intend to call former Senator Trent Lott -- Scruggs'... [read post]