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25 Aug 2007, 4:34 am
As reported on WSJ Law Blog, Dickie Scruggs has hired John Keker to defend him in the pending criminal contempt proceeding. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 8:07 pm
My op-ed in Saturday's Journal on the Dickie Scruggs case is here. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 9:14 pm
William Roberts Wilson, who was done out of his share of asbestos fees by Dickie Scruggs and lost the ensuing litigation (federal prosecutors say) because Scruggs's agents had reached the judge, says the bribe money Scruggs paid should be considered... [read post]
17 Mar 2007, 9:33 am
Because the moistly admiring profile that it ran a year and a half ago ($) just wasn't enough, the New York Times was back yesterday with another moistly admiring profile of trial lawyer zillionaire Richard ("Dickie") Scruggs, once again letting... [read post]
7 Dec 2007, 6:46 am
Things you're missing if you're still not reading my (and Ted's) other blog: intensive coverage of the Dickie Scruggs indictment and its fallout; new trial lawyer group fighting with AAJ over ATLA acronym; ten state AGs object to provision in... [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 5:02 am
Acker Jr. has ruled that key Scruggs Katrina co-operators Cori and Kerry Rigsby must pay $65,000 in contempt fines, and Dickie Scruggs is continuing to fight those payments on the renegade insurance adjusters' behalf, with not much... [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]
4 Dec 2007, 11:09 am
The Wall Street Journal has more on the Dickie Scruggs indictment for allegedly attempting to bribe a Mississippi state judge in the Katrina insurance litigation -- It's Party Time for Mr. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 8:21 pm
Any federal criminal prosecution will trigger motions from the defendant, and the hotly-contested prosecution of Dickie Scruggs and two other lawyers from his firm, his son Zach and Sidney Backstrom, has resulted in a veritable barrage of filings from the... [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 2:41 am
A reader sent a question asking whether, in light of all the bribery allegations leveled against famed plaintiffs lawyer Dickie Scruggs, the government could seek to forfeit the reputed $1 billion fee he received for his role in the state... [read post]
30 Nov 2007, 2:22 pm
I'll just note that I know a lot of trial lawyers, and their lives and practices don't have much in common with the high fliers like Dickie Scruggs. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 1:25 pm
Mike Moore, for those who don't know, is the former AG of Mississippi and a close friend of Dickie Scruggs who worked with Scruggs on the tobacco litigation and has also had a hand in Katrina litigation. [read post]
30 Nov 2008, 2:36 pm
Both Dickie Scruggs and Judge Bobby DeLaughter have denied wrongdoing in the affair.... [read post]
27 Jan 2007, 4:56 am
Wouldn't you know it, Dickie Scruggs and Attorney General Jim Hood were looking for the headline and (in Scruggs's case) the payday, and are told that the settlement doesn't justify dissolving the claims and rights of unnamed class members who... [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]
31 Dec 2020, 5:05 am
Brock, Mario Bunge, George Dickie, David Efird, Gerald ("Jerry") Gaus, Ruth Gavison, Ronald Giere, Colin Howson, Joel Kupperman, J.R. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 3:47 am
When I read this post from Walter Olson at PointofLaw about a favorable profile of Dickie Scruggs in the New York Times, it made me think again about how Scruggs dominated and defined the arguments in Mississippi. [read post]
23 Jun 2008, 7:12 pm
Here's an excerpt: Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, the high-profile plaintiffs lawyer who pleaded guilty in March to conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge, will likely... [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 1:31 pm
Things are probably pretty jolly around State Farm headquarters these days: nemesis attorney Dickie Scruggs is being prosecuted for alleged criminal contempt, the insurer is suing Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, and today the Fifth Circuit handed the company a... [read post]
9 Sep 2006, 8:18 am
Dickie Scruggs is unhappy about that whole due-process thing that requires individual cases to be tried as individual cases. [read post]
