SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Share The first oral argument of the Supreme Court’s new term, Mississippi v. Tennessee , dealt with Mississippi’s claim that Memphis, Tennessee, is stealing Mississippi’s groundwater. Coghlan argued that the groundwater extraction created a cone of depression that physically entered into Mississippi.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The recently introduced text messages show Favre and former Gov. Bryant discussing how to channel $5 million in public funds toward Favre's volleyball project.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This latest ruling is part of a wave of legislation and litigation surrounding felony disenfranchisement. In October 2022, the US Supreme Court was asked to review Mississippi’s felony disenfranchisement provisions because of their racist origins.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 26, 2022

Many spouses in Mississippi choose to disregard the guidelines of equitable distribution altogether by creating a separation agreement outside of court.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Failure to bring your claim within this three-year deadline can result in losing your legal right to recover entirely.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 3, 2022

A common issue on the roads in Mississippi and other states is when drivers simply ignore the speed limit and choose to go as fast as they want.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Mississippi does not have fully developed seat belt defense laws, and the law specifically states that “failure to use a seat belt shall not be considered contributory or comparative negligence.” .

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Lawsuit states that Mississippi farm discriminated against its Black workers.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The Mississippi Supreme Court reversed a trial court's finding that a secondary insurer in an uninsured motorists litigation was entitled to a pro-rata offset of liability proceeds rather than applying the general rule.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Mississippi , and Ramos v. Mississippi , a 2019 case in which the Court granted a new trial to Curtis Giovanni Flowers, who was convicted of murdering four people in 1996, after finding that the prosecutor discriminated during jury selection. “By While the opinions the court delivered in Buck v. Davis , Peña-Rodriguez v.

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Law 360

JUNE 10, 2024

Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Sanofi-Aventis asked the federal judge overseeing a diabetes drug price-fixing multidistrict litigation to rule for drugmakers on Mississippi's claims the pricing for GLP-1s is illegal, saying in a brief that the drugs are under patent and too new to be included in the insulin-pricing suit.

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LegalReader

JULY 28, 2022

Speeding is also a clear sign of negligence.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Issue : Whether the subjective element of the “sham litigation” exception to Noerr-Pennington immunity may be met by an inference from a finding that a challenged lawsuit was objectively baseless, even without evidence that the antitrust defendant actually believed the suit lacked merit or was indifferent to the outcome. Mississippi.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 8, 2022

This is where your lawyers show that you wouldn’t have been injured but for the other party’s actions (or lack of).

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

If multiple drivers are to blame for your accident, you are fully entitled to hold them all accountable.

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Connor Reporting

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Whether your complex case is in the area of bankruptcy, intellectual property, antitrust, construction defect, class action, international trade, business litigation or any other area of complex litigation — there are key tools that can set your case up for success. The Wisconsin BBE accredits all Veritext programs for 1.0

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 19, 2023

But a review of the item’s ingredient-disclosure list reveals that the green tea and echinacea were “inactive” ingredients; “a tacit acknowledgment that they have no connection to the Product’s function.” ” ( Complaint , paragraph 43) Some may find that hard to swallow. # # # SOURCE SINGO v. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 18, 2024

In June, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing its Good Neighbor Plan while litigation over the plan continues in the lower courts. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which covers Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The lawsuit asks the court to compel a Mississippi sheriff to serve a decades-old arrest warrant on Patricia Sterling, the White woman believed to have caused 14-year-old Emmett Till's lynching by telling a group of men that the Black teenager had sexually harassed her.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Jeffrey Hammons is an Associate Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago, IL, where his litigation practice covers issues of pollution control and energy law. Mississippi , 456 U.S. Mississippi , 456 U.S. Jeffrey graduated from Columbia Law School in 2016. Follow Jeffrey on twitter at @jt_hammons.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2023

The NAACP Monday filed a lawsuit to block a new Mississippi bill that they allege would violate the state’s constitution. House Bill (HB) 1020 allows the Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice to appoint four judges to the Circuit Court of Hinds County. African Americans in Mississippi died so that we could vote.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that city officials and their private-sector partners had ample opportunity to prevent the ongoing crisis.

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2025

The petitioners comprise Republican-led states Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, and Mississippi, alongside the American Petroleum Institute and Gulf Energy Alliance. This legal challenge follows prior litigation against the Biden administrations attempts to pause oil and gas leasing, which the same court struck down in 2022.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This case arises out of a lawsuit between Jackson Women’s Health Organization—the only abortion provider in the state—and the state of Mississippi. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch then filed a brief with the Supreme Court in July asking it to reconsider its precedential rulings in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The lawsuit alleges that Ingalls and a contractor overlooked a supervisor's predatory behavior.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

1 in a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. But the majority, over dissents by Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal justices, nonetheless allowed the Texas law to go into effect while litigation challenging its constitutionality continues in the lower courts.

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LegalReader

MAY 19, 2021

Following the death of an infant, Mother Goose Daycare in Oxford, Mississippi was recently hit with a wrongful death lawsuit.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2022

Sam McAllister , Director of Litigation Technology, Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC. Mississippi; Nominee for Chair, U.S. Elaine Screechfield , Executive Board Member, National Docketing Association; Firmwide Litigation Docket Manager, Morrison & Foerster, LLP. Joe Lawson , Director, Harris County Robert W.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 18, 2025

Dodge (George Washington University Law School) and first published on Transnational Litigation Blog. The original version can be found at Transnational Litigation Blog. litigation, it would not involve arguing the merits of Chinas actions during the pandemic or submitting to U.S. This article was written by Prof. Limbaugh, Jr.

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Chugh LLP

AUGUST 19, 2021

Couples that have decided to end their marriages may opt for out of court divorce mediation, which provides a more affordable alternative to litigation. Mississippi. Judges may order counseling if they think the marriage has a chance of being reconciled, or if one spouse requests it. Divorce Mediation. Child custody. Pennsylvania.

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LegalReader

APRIL 21, 2022

The Justice Department found that nearly two dozen inmates died as a result of correction officials' negligence.

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Law 360

MARCH 4, 2025

A Mississippi federal judge said Tuesday that he will allow two outside nonprofits to step into litigation over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's $5 overdraft fee rule and defend the Biden-era regulation against a banking industry-backed legal challenge.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

The court added nine other cases to its docket for the 2021-22 term, on issues ranging from securities litigation to interstate water disputes. Mississippi v. Other grants on Friday’s order list. Those cases (which, like the Maine school-funding case, are likely to be heard in the fall) are: Cummings v. Pivotal Software v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Outside Alabama, two other states – Oklahoma and Mississippi – have also authorized nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. Alabama, he stressed, “has been saying throughout the litigation that it is very close to implementing a nitrogen hypoxia protocol.” Miller urged the justices to leave Huffaker’s ruling in place.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 6, 2021

If litigated, the state’s nuanced dog liability laws would come into effect. States like Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Arkansas, Michigan, Louisiana, and Kentucky have breed specific laws barring or limiting certain dog breeds, including pit bulls. She was watching the dogs for her roommate.

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Day on Torts

JULY 26, 2022

In the context of countering plaintiffs’ assertion that the death was a homicide, defendant shared autopsy photographs of the son as well as some of his text messages, both of which were public records released by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.

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