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3 Aug 2011, 7:41 am by Philip Thomas
Does anyone think that Jim Hood could get elected Attorney General as a Democratic candidate if he was not the incumbent? [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 12:48 am
  However, in the lawsuit, Attorney General Hood said his investigation into the claims process falls under the Mississippi Consumer Protection Act and of purview of the state courts.Mr. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 4:38 am
District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana lacked power under the Oil Pollution Act (OPA)t to monitor BP’s payment of short-term damages through the fund.Responding specifically to Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s allegations that BP, the GCCF and Mr. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 4:59 pm by Maritime Law Staff
JACKSON, MS – The Mississippi Attorney General, Jim Hood has asked a District Judge to intervene on behalf of claimants in the $20 billion BP Oil Spill fund causing some friction with the fund administrator, Kenneth Feinberg. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 11:10 am by Steve Hall
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]
22 Mar 2011, 1:29 pm by Steve Hall
Attorney General Jim Hood’s office did not immediately respond to questions about whether Mississippi will substitute pentobarbital for sodium thiopental in the three-drug cocktail or use it alone. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 1:29 pm by Steve Hall
Attorney General Jim Hood’s office did not immediately respond to questions about whether Mississippi will substitute pentobarbital for sodium thiopental in the three-drug cocktail or use it alone. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 9:18 am by Steve Hall
And: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood wrote a letter to Hospira last April, asking if there was anything he could do to help expedite a shipment of sodium thiopental because the state didn't have enough for two executions, scheduled the following month, on May 19 and 20. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 1:34 pm by Steve Hall
Several of the state's coroners and prosecutors, along with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, mounted a brief campaign last year to reinstate Hayne, but that effort was defeated by the Mississippi legislature earlier this year. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 10:07 pm by Walter Olson
The Mississippi Attorney General keeps defending a capital conviction based on dubious bite-mark testimony [Radley Balko, Reason] Tags: expert witnesses, Mississippi, prosecution Related posts September 15 roundup (3) Mixed Fifth Circuit decision in Minor-Teel-Whitfield appeal (2) Mississippi: “Former state pathologist suing Innocence Project” (0) Mississippi forensics: corner-cutting coroners? [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 7:10 am by Philip Thomas
The article makes a poor attempt to connect the Scruggs State Farm litigation to Attorney General Jim Hood's request to Congress that it rewrite federal law to allow Mississippi to sue Gulf Oil Spill companies in state court. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 10:06 pm by Walter Olson
If Attorney General Jim Hood wanted to avoid the impression that he was thick with the Scruggs crowd, he probably shouldn’t have had them vet his response to the Wall Street Journal before he sent it off. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 1:16 pm by David Rossmiller
   The editorial mentions, in recounting how Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood worked with Scruggs and other trial lawyers to come up with a Kobayashi Maru scenario for insurance companies in the state, how Hood had denied to the WSJ that he ever colluded with Scruggs. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 8:45 am by Carter Wood
UPDATE (1:45 p.m.): The Wall Street Journal examines Mississippi AG Jim Hood at length today as he again attempts to exploit the "plaintiffs bar-attorney general nexus," to bring BP oil spill litigation into state courts. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 7:55 pm by David Rossmiller
   But also, in the decision I noticed -- and I am not making this up -- that the court said Attorney General Jim Hood was also granted permission to speak as an amicus. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 5:09 am by Philip Thomas
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood seems to have a handle on the scope of the possible litigation: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has sought advice from state university researchers, economists and lawyers to assess the environmental and economic damage the spill has caused to the state. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 4:44 pm by Colin O'Keefe
Hood - Mississippi personal injury attorney Philip Thomas on his MS Litigation Review & Commentary Federal Court Dismisses Diminished Value Class Action Against Automaker - New York lawyer Russell Jackson of Skadden on his blog, Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts Inheriting an IRA from a spouse? [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 8:43 am by Steve Hall
The recent executions of Paul Everette Woodward and Gerald James Holland have prompted Attorney General Jim Hood and Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps to say as many as three more death sentences could be carried out this year. [read post]
24 May 2010, 9:51 am by Steve Hall
State Attorney General Jim Hood said it plainly Friday in the wake of back-to-back executions of Paul Everette Woodward, 62, on Wednesday and Gerald James Holland, 72, on Thursday. [read post]
3 May 2010, 7:05 am by Philip Thomas
The leader of the Mississippi Association for Justice is asking Attorney General Jim Hood to investigate:  We have heard numerous stories of businesses along the Mississippi Gulf Coast that are getting as many as half a dozen phone calls per hour from out-of-state law firms,” the organization’s president, Steve Mullins, said in a letter to Hood. [read post]