The Mississippi Supreme Court has order a trial in a lawsuit over a George County accident involving a car and a horse. The personal-injury case involved a 2008 automobile collision between Diana Ladnier and Diego, a horse owned by Joseph …
The Mississippi Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that a Hinds County judge erred in determining how the much the city of Jackson was liable in a case involving a police chase. Last December, the state Court of Appeals …
An appeal from Don F. McElroy, who claims he is owed compensation from Simpson County for injuries he suffered in a 2004 accident, won’t be heard by the Mississippi Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, in a 7-1 decision this week, …
Conoco Phillips Corp. has appealed a $15.2 million jury award to an oil and well drilling worker who claimed have gotten lung disease from exposure to asbestos. The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case on Jan. …
The Mississippi Supreme Court has asked attorneys for more information as it considers whether the state’s limitation on damages in civil cases is constitutional. In an order last month, the court asked attorneys for Sears, Roebuck and Co. and for …
Republican state Auditor Stacy Pickering has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to declare funds the attorney general collects from lawsuits to be public money and to require the money to all be turned over the Legislature, including what private law …
It’s round two for Republican state Auditor Stacy Pickering and Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood in a fight over the constitutionality of a law that allows Hood to hire private lawyers to represent Mississippi in lawsuits. The Mississippi Supreme Court …
Gov. Haley Barbour has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of a state law that limits non-economic damages in civil cases. Barbour contends in court documents filed this week that Mississippi’s tort reform measures, passed in 2004, …
A federal appeals panel is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court if state law that limits non-economic damages to $1 million in civil cases is constitutional. The question from a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, dated …
