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8 Feb 2008, 12:08 am
This is the best explanation I have yet seen of the case, who the players are and what happened.Here's an excerpt:For William Roberts Wilson, disagreeing with fellow trial attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has caused a nuisance that has lasted 14 years -- and counting. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 3:53 pm
He admitted talking to Dickie Scruggs and others before filing his lawsuit against State Farm, and to circulating a copy of the complaint to Scruggs and others before it was filed. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 11:38 am
Attorney for Northern Alabama, where Hood told Martin that Dickie Scruggs shouldn't be prosecuted for alleged criminal contempt, as desired by federal Judge Acker, because Scruggs was his confidential informant in Hood's investigation of insurers' Katrina claims handling; testimony about whether Scruggs himself is a whistleblower, insofar as state law appears to appy to whistleblowers against government agencies, not to whistleblowing in general; Kerri Rigsby and other… [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 6:11 am
We've got Jim Hood, Courtney Schloemer, Kerri Rigsby, and the transcript of the deposition of Dickie Scruggs all showing up today for the big hearing to decide if State Farm's injunction against Hood's criminal investigation will continue. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 11:42 am
That’s the date — March 31 — that Dickie Scruggs’s trial is slated to start down in federal court in Oxford, Miss. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 6:07 am
As Lloyds (via Dow Jones Newswire) reports, the Department of Justice has declined to intervene in the Katrina qui tam suit filed by Dickie Scruggs against State Farm: "The Government's investigation has not been completed, as certain potentially relevant information... [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 5:52 am
Now this is interesting: here is the transcript of a February 1 hearing held before Michael Mills, chief federal judge of the Northern District of Mississippi, on State Farm's motion to compel Dickie Scruggs to submit to a deposition for the case and Scruggs' motion to quash the deposition subpoena. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 1:20 am
It wasn't but last week that Hood was slinging for Dickie once again, trying to get him out of having his deposition taken by State Farm. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 9:07 pm
David Rossmiller—indispensable for matters Scruggsian—has the details of a Judge Michael Mills's displeasure with Dickie Scruggs's refusal to submit to a deposition in State Farm's lawsuit against state attorney general Jim Hood. [read post]
Judge scolds Scruggs over attempts to avoid State Farm deposition: I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you
4 Feb 2008, 12:46 pm
Dickie Scruggs being accused by a judge of engaging in tactical delays in litigation? [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 5:07 am
Walter's phenomenal coverage of the Dickie Scruggs scandal: Jan. 13, Jan. 14, Jan. 15, and Jan. 16 (Joey Langston); Jan. 17; Jan. 21; Jan. 29. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 4:53 am
Rigsby "whistleblower" lawsuit was filed first by Dickie Scruggs and the Rigsby sisters and covers more or less the same general theory, although the specific allegations differ. [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 8:21 pm
Famed Mississippi tort lawyer Dickie Scruggs is fighting on more than two fronts these days, although under the terms of... [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 12:39 am
Rigsby, Dickie Scruggs, otherwise occupied? [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]
30 Jan 2008, 9:32 am
The federal indictment of prominent Mississippi trial lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs on charges that he and four others tried to bribe a state judge hasn't done much for the reputation of lawyers in the Magnolia State. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 8:22 am
The Recap: In late November of last year, high-flying Mississippi plaintiffs lawyer Dickie Scruggs (pictured, right) was indicted in federal court along with several others for allegedly conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge, Henry Lackey. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 9:17 pm
* Perhaps relatedly, to quote Folo's contributor NMC, "In the case against Dickie Scruggs over allegations of bribing Judge Lackey, the prosecution has filed a Notice of Intent to Introduce 'similar acts evidence pursuant to Rule 404(b), Fed. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 6:30 am
-- A reader sent me a link to this 1999 Wall Street Journal story about bizarre goings-on including flying dog poop and gun play at a Dickie Scruggs mansion in Pascagoula. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 10:01 pm
[Moved up from January 28 with a brief update at the end] The prosecution of Dickie Scruggs has been fascinating, to say the least, including the view it has provided on the web of connections between the various lawyers in... [read post]
