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13 Apr 2011, 4:59 pm
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
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
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
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]
2 Feb 2011, 9:00 am
[JURIST] Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official website] on Tuesday requested that the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] order the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) [official website] to fulfill its legal obligations to aid victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 9:18 am
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
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]
10 Nov 2010, 6:44 am
In both cases, investigators used technology available through Attorney General Jim Hood’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 5:02 am
The lawsuit created an unusual alliance between Attorney General Jim Hood, Governor Haley “I haven't decided if I'm running for President” Barbour and Secretary of State Delbert Hoseman. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 10:07 pm
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
After taking a look at general stalking yesterday, today Rob McKinney examines the legality of cyber stalking in Tennessee. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 5:00 am
In 2007 State Farm sued Attorney General Jim Hood. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 5:00 am
I previously posted about Attorney General Jim Hood's State lawsuit against Microsoft and the $8.3 million attorneys fee paid to a group of lawyers that included Jackson lawyer Brent Hazzard, Susman Godfrey of Houston and David Boies' firm. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 8:43 am
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]
