Updated: A Mississippi lawsuit filed by Eaton Corp. in 2004 resulted in fireworks earlier this month when a judge overseeing the Hinds County circuit court case ordered a number of…
A divided federal appellate court has upheld a $420,000 jury verdict against two lawyers who were found to have withheld critical information from the opposing party in complex asbestos litigation…
A doctor accused of trying to arrange a contract hit on the divorce attorney who had represented his former wife in their divorce, years earlier, kept a hidden camera in…
Utility regulators in Mississippi have imposed a record $945,000 fine on a California telemarketer for violating state law about contacting those on the “do not call” list.
The circuit clerk of Hinds County, Miss., can’t catch a break from the Mississippi Supreme Court, which appears increasingly irritated with the way she runs her office and responds to…
Two agents of the Mississippi Attorney General’s office were meeting with a lawyer about an alleged murder plot against him on Saturday evening when two men allegedly hired to do…
A federal judge in Mississippi has dismissed a lawsuit brought against a television news anchor by the estate of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. over documents in…
More inmates are held in solitary confinement in the United States than any other nation, but in some states, attitudes toward the practice are changing.
The Mississippi Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on the constitutionality of outgoing former Gov. Haley Barbour’s mass pardon of state prison inmates.
A Mississippi judge has jailed a Rankin County lawyer for contempt, saying he will stay there until he deposits guardianship funds into a court registry and provides a complete accounting…
Mississippi’s high court has agreed to consider a legal challenge to pardons then-Gov. Haley Barbour handed out last month in his final days in office.
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