For the second time in less than three years, a growing Mississippi-based law firm with national and international offices has expanded its footprint in Nashville, Tennessee.
A class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Mississippi’s Scott County has jailed inmates for up to a year without indicting them or appointing counsel.
The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a Judicial Performance Commission’s recommendation that a youth-court judge be removed from the bench and fined, but the high court said neither it nor…
A federal appeals court has enjoined a Mississippi law requiring hospital-admission privileges for abortion-clinic doctors because it would have closed the state’s only abortion clinic.
A state attorney general has sued Experian Information Solutions, contending that the major credit-reporting agency has knowingly left errors in its files on consumers and makes it difficult or impossible…
In a written settlement agreement concerning the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with a 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, BP agreed to a compensation…
A Mississippi judge is considering whether to dismiss a “depraved heart” murder charge against a woman accused of using crack cocaine, resulting in the stillbirth of her daughter.
Did ExxonMobil put Louisiana alligators on a Mississippi oil waste disposal site to help monitor the cleanliness of the land? Or did wild gators native to Mississippi simply spot a…
A yearlong national survey showed a “disturbing” amount of discrimination against deaf and hard-of-hearing would-be renters and led to the filing of nine federal fair-housing administrative complaints by advocacy groups…
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