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Zach Scruggs prison date set
LNL - Junior Scruggs’ tongue to blame for prison sentence
DJ - Stern justice—Biggers’ sentences reflect gravity of bribe offenses
SH - Zach Scruggs prison date set - Aug 15
FOLO - Mike Moore’s sentence prediction
CL - Zach Scruggs’ penalty harsher than Trailer Lawyers anticipated
FOLO - Anita and Jerry spin Zach Scruggs’ sentencing differently
NYT - Scruggs’s Son Sentenced in Bribery Case
SH - Younger Scruggs also gets prison
Mike Moore quote of the year
ICLAWBLOG - Zach Scruggs gets 14 months prison time
WJSLAWBLOG - Zach Scruggs Gets 14 Months, Though Gov’t Suggested Probation
YP - Partial text from Zach’s March plea hearing
Text of Zach Scruggs’ Sentencing Hearing
YP - Misprision of Felony
POL - misprision of a felony equals concealing the crime
YP - Does Mike Moore insult Judge Bigger’s intelligence?
WSJ LAWBLOG - The How, Why and What the Heck Behind Scruggs’s 14-Month Sentence
CL - Zach Scruggs might appeal?
ICLAWBLOG - Zach Scruggs gets 14 months prison time
WSJ LAWBLOG - Zach Scruggs Gets 14 Months, Though Gov’t Suggested Probation
DM - Zach Scruggs sentenced to 14 months
AP - Anti-tobacco lawyer’s son sentenced in bribe plan
SH - Zach Scruggs sentenced to 14 months
FOLO - Zach Scruggs sentenced to 14 months
CL - Younger Scruggs also going to jail
DJ - Zach Scruggs gets 14 Months
FOLO - Judge Acker to Scruggs: “Are you talking to me“
SLABBED - Acker grants limited relief to Rigsby Gals and Dickie . . . Orders them to turn it over
LNL - Attorneys urge probation for Zach Scruggs
Zach Scruggs to be sentenced Wednesday
FOLO - Zach Scruggs and the unbound plea
SALTERBLOG - Scruggs: Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate…
Scruggs’ son denies awareness of bribe . . . Trailer Lawyers argue
FOLO - Zach Scruggs sentencing memorandum
Marshall Ramsey on Scruggs
Zach Scruggs to be sentenced Wednesday
Minor appeals bribery conviction
FOLO - The Paul Minor Appeal paperwork
YP - A few interesting notes on Paul Minor’s appeal
DM EDITORIAL - Corrupting the hand that feeds you
FOLO - Judge Lackey given Miss. Bar “Judicial Excellence Award”
Attorney Minor files appeal of judicial bribery conviction
FOLO takes a look at the 1996 Mike Moore
DM - Ole Mississippians discuss Scruggs
CL EDITORIAL - Scruggs: Went from highest to lowest at bar
DJ EDITORIAL - Justice trumps arrogance
LOA - Scruggs Redux: Transcripts, Reactions and Editorials
SH EDITORIAL - Scruggs did not stain Lackey or Biggers
FOLO - Keker’s sentencing remarks and Southern Literature
Reflections on Dickie Scruggs’ Sentencing
CL - Scruggs’ downfall remains baffling
NPR - How a $50K bribe led to Dickie Scruggs Downfall
CL - Scruggs gets max
CL - Friends, competitors, colleagues react to sentences
‘REPREHENSIBLE’
SH - Biggers: ‘No doubt that you did it’
DJ - Sad, but justified
LATIMES - Dickie Scruggs gets 5 years in prison in bribery scheme
SH - Scruggs wants same prison as Minor
NYT - Class-Action Lawyer Gets 5 Years in Bribery Case
Additional Scruggs news roundup
YP - Former and Current MS Attorney General comments are questionable
Sun Herald Roundup
FOLO - Selected reactions to Dickie’s sentencing
MITCHELL - Scruggs gets maximum sentence
QUINN - The case that made Scruggs bribe
LNL - AG Jim Hood speaks on sentence of his largest campaign contributor, Dickie Scruggs
SH - Transcript: Dickie Scruggs sentencing transcript
400 letters written to judge on case
BOWWOW - Y’allPolitics Serves Up Some Rubbish (allegedly)
FOLO - From the Backstrom sentencing
DJ - Sid Backstrom - 28 months in prison
FOLO Reports Sid Backstrom gets 2.5 years
Can Dickie Scruggs and Paul Minor bunk together in Pensacola?  Maybe not.
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs Nation: June 27, the sentencing
Pithy comments from Judge Neal Biggers
Biggers - “like you had done it before”
SH - Judge Neal D. Biggers Jr. - “reprehensible”
YP BREAKING - Scruggs Gets 5 years
DJ - Lackey was not truly bribed
Sentencing set today for noted lawyer Scruggs in bribery case
NYCDBLOG - Scruggs Judge Biggers: Blogger Is Worthy
Dickie Scruggs’ sentence?  Make your predictions here
Ole Miss Law School Dean Sam Davis’ Letter to Judge Biggers for Dickie Scruggs
Chancellor Robert Khayat’s Letter to Neal Biggers for Dickie Scruggs
Scruggs letters: Letters of Support
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs Nation: June 26, the pre-sentencing
OE - Hundreds ask for leniency for Scruggses, Backstrom
Prosecutors subpoena Grady Tollison for sentencing
YP - A Catch 22 Situation for Dickie Scruggs & Rigsby Gals in Judge Acker’s Court
Scruggs, government differ on views for sentence
DJ - Letter writers have strong opinions for Backstrom, Scruggs
DJ - Scruggs disagrees about prison time
446 letters written for Scruggs, his son, Backstrom
Scruggs urges leniency in motion to judge
YP - Government Sentence Memorandum and Scruggs’ Reponse
FOLO - Government argues about the guidelines: The amount here is $4m+, not zero or $40,000
The judges ruling on opening letters for inspection
Scruggs urges leniency in motion to judge
WSJLAWBLOG - Earning His Letters: Taking Stock of the Support for Scruggs
AP - Friends seek leniency for well-known attorney
Movie characters write letters to support Scruggs
FOLO - Some notes on the Scruggs sentencing letters
DJ - UPDATE: Movie characters write letters to support Scruggs
Scruggs letters update: Many praise his good works
SH - Scruggs letters update: Many praise his good works
YP BREAKING - SH Reports Khayat and Winter wrote letters for Scruggs
Huffington-Puffington Post has another pro-felon article on Paul Minor . . . ignores the facts
LAWANDMORE - Ole Miss Law School - Setting up All the King’s Men Archive
FOLO - In retaliation, professional journalists start filing legal pleadings…
Federal judge scolds State Farm
SH - Federal judge scolds State Farm
YP - Another McIntosh Order - Rigsby computer docs must be reviewed
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs sentencing approaches, letters to be released
FOLO - Judge Biggers declines to change his mind about the sentencing letters
QUINN - Scruggs case and the debate reporters vs. bloggers
Backstrom objects to release of pre-sentencing letters in Scruggs case
FOLO - The MPB story about Scruggs blogging is online.
UPDATE:Backstrom asks court to reconsider release of letters
WSJ - Sentencing Doesn’t End Scruggs’s Legal Woes
YP - The continued attempt to ‘buff-up’ jailed felon Paul Minor
Rigsby gals trailer lawyer attorney-less in so called ‘whistle-blower’ case
SH - Judge: Scruggs letters public record
FOLO - Biggers grants SunHerald’s motion to make Scruggs ‘good boy’ letters public
SH - Rigsbys attorney-less in whistle-blower case
YP - More bad news in the Scruggs legal maneuvering empire
SH - Update on Lisanby Trial
YP - McIntosh v. SF news - Judge Walker to Cori - ‘Turn them docs over, girl’
Public access to Scruggs letters sought by Sun Herald
YP - Another MS lawyer indicted for fraud - this time it’s John A. Allen
WSJ - The Firm
YP - New filings in Qui Tam - Wyatt depo implicates Trailer Lawyers as part of SKG Meetings
YP - Eaton v. Frisby sanctions from Judge Yerger and reports from the Special Master
Lawyer in bribe case objects to sentencing report
UPDATE:Backstrom’s lawyers object to pre-sentence report
Latest Scruggs replacement attorneys can stay on cases
A ‘So-Called’ Attorney General
Fed Judge Rules Miss AG Hood one of all the king’s men
Judge Senter: Policyholders are casualties
ICLAWBLOG-Hammer time: more thoughts on Judge Acker’s civil contempt ruling on Scruggs, Rigsby Gals
WSJLAWBLOG - Spat Between Mississippi AG, Alabama Federal Judge Heats Up
FOLO - Atty General Hood fires back at Judge Acker. One bullet is a blank
LNL - Hood’s had it with federal judge
Judge: Miss. AG conspired with Scruggs
Ala. judge scolds Hood’s involvement in Scruggs contempt case
FOLO - A Strange Aspect of Judge Acker’s Order
SH - Judge fines Scruggs, Rigsby sisters
SH - Judge fines Scruggs, Rigsby sisters; Hood called ‘co-conspirator’
Reining In the Kings of Tort
ICLAWBLOG - Judge Acker hammers Scruggs, Rigsby sisters for contempt
Alabama judge cites Rigsbys, Scruggs with contempt, orders them to pay $65,000
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs Nation, June 5
Reining In the Kings of Tort
Wilkie on Scruggs - from DM article on changing name of Scruggs Hall
Harmony Books Chooses Curtis Wilkie for the Dickie Scruggs Book
Class action or class extortion? Two lawyers pay the price
Scruggs’ sentencing pushed up
Musical dates with the Scruggses/Backstrom sentencing
SH - Disqualified lawyers seek reinstatement
FOLO - An Oedipal moment here?
YP - Trailer Lawyers move to Re-ReConsider ex rel Rigsby
SLABBED - “The future ain’t what it use to be” for Richard “Dickie” Scruggs UPDATED with l
ICLAWBLOG - McIntosh v. State Farm update, June 2
DJ - A tangled web of legal cases continues
DJ - Backstrom, Scruggses face July sentencing
Scruggs Nation: I Fought the Law and the Law Won version
LNL - Five weeks until Scruggs learns fate
Zach Scruggs - Pinstripes and Grey Goose
Judge Walker grants Scruggs temporary stay for document production in McIntosh
FOLO - Scruggs D-Day rescheduled already - now it’s 7/2
BREAKING - D-Day for Dickie Scruggs et. al. . . . Sentencing on 6/18
NEWYORKER - The Bribe (abstract)
Scruggs Update
FOLO - Renfroes move for summary judgment, dismissal of qui tam suit
FOLO - Judge Bobby DeLaughter’s response to Eaton v. Frisby document subpoena
FOLO - The Ed Peters Subpoena in Eaton v Frisby
Scruggs Nation, May 27
The final whistle for Scruggs
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs Nation, May 27
FOLO - Bobby DeLaughter reportedly served in Eaton v. Frisby as well
SLABBED - State Farm grabs the torch back and burns Provost-Umphrey
Three On Your Side Investigates: Ed Peters Subpoenaed
JJ - Ed Peters Served?
ICLAWBLOG - Renfroe seeks inquiry into whether new Katrina counsel associated with Scruggs, KLG
FOLO - More details about the disqualification motions against Provost-Umphrey
Company seeks to disqualify another policyholder law firm
Trailer Lawyer Graves Responds to Disqualification
Insurer conduct exam on hold
YP - Air Scruggs Flies Again!
PARLOFF - Did Scruggs have a third insider?
KC Star breaking business news - Graves, Robertson removed from whistleblower suit
Kansas City Lawyers Bounced From Ex Rel Rigsby
ICLAWBLOG - The Day the Music Died: Trailer Lawyers disqualified from False Claims Act case
FOLO - Some thoughts on Judge Senter’s order disqualifying the KC lawyers
Judge bars Missouri lawyers from State Farm case
Trailer Lawyers likely to appeal Judge’s ruling
SH - Judge disqualifies law firms
YP BREAKING - Senter Rules . . . Trailer Lawyers - Out!
Scruggs told to turn over records
ICLAWBLOG - Update on McIntosh v. State Farm case, May 19
Chicago Tribune - Scruggs ordered to turn over some records to State Farm
New order in McIntosh v. State Farm on Scruggs divulging documents
LEGALWEEK previews Dickie Scruggs’ stay in the Big House
SLABBED - Lumpkin & Reeves disqualified by Order issued today
Case pits wind vs. water
ICLAWBLOG - Renfroe v. Rigsby update, May 14
Scruggs Roundup: DOJ’s Pursuit, New Katrina Lawyers, and the New Yorker’s Take
ICLAWBLOG - Katrina litigation update/Trailer Lawyer update, May 13
FOLO - KC Lawyers: Look me in the eyes!
Scruggs Roundup: DOJ’s Pursuit, New Katrina Lawyers, and the New Yorker’s Take
Counts tossed in theft case
Bloggers get boost from Dickie Scruggs case
Texas firm picks up ex-Scruggs clients
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs Nation, May 12
Scruggs may face additional charges - Justice Department eyes racketeering case
Request for State Farm records denied
Ribsby Gals win one, kinda-sorta
FOLO - Judge Senter to State Farm: Brevity is the soul of wit.
State Farm settles Katrina cases
Examiners still working on State Farm market conduct study
ICLAWBLOG - Update on McIntosh v. State Farm case, May 7
ICLAWBLOG - Rossmiller slips in a Trailer Lawyer comment
FOLO - Todd Graves snaps
Memo to Plaintiffs’ Trial Lawyers: “Perceptions” of Bad State Lawsuit Climates Really Do Matter
ICLAWBLOG - Trailer Lawyers demand sanctions for ‘scurrilous’ allegations relating to Rigsby Gals
ICLAWBLOG - Trailer Lawyers demand sanctions for ‘scurrilous’ allegations relating to Trailer Summit
FOLO - Alyssa previews today’s hearing in Moultrie
FOLO - A day in court I wish we could see
FOLO - New filings about Judge DeLaughter and Ed Peters in Eaton Corp. v. Frisby
Rigsby Gals say they did nothing wrong
Todd Graves Cops to Being Present at Second Mississippi Trailer Meeting
Lawyers fighting to stay on case
Lawyer denies infiltrating State Farm database
ICLAWBLOG - Trailer Lawyer News, April 29
State Farm v. The Katrina Lawyers: An Update
FOLO - The KC Lawyers respond to State Farm’s disqualification motion in the Rigsby Gal’s qui tam
SLABBED - Over the wire or under the wig - ex parte Part 3
ICLAWBLOG - Sun Herald story on Rigsby sisters
State Farm confronts former adjusters who questioned post-Katrina policy
FOLO - Jim Hood’s statements about his meeting with Patterson and Balducci
Rigsby Gals talk - sort of
SH - Hood says statements distorted in Scruggs, State Farm cases
SLABBED - Over the wire or under the wig – ex parte is ex parte
Documents Allege Improper Contact Between Peters and DeLaughter
Lawyer wants sanctions against Scruggs, seeks millions
YP - Having Dickie Scruggs public records withdrawal? Read the ones about Paul Minor
YP - Paul Minor’s daddy bemoans DOJ ‘corruption’ and calls Judge Henry Wingate ‘a tool’
ICLAWBLOG - Is this what Judge Senter had in mind?
FOLO - Will somebody please lasso Bobby DeLaughter’s computers?
FOLO - Defense moves to dismiss Sanctuary Case for prosecutorial misconduct by the AG investigators
Lawyer lash out at insurer in Katrina case
FOLO - What’s new in all the Wilson-related pleadings
ICLAWBLOG - Trailer Lawyer News, April 23: the ‘Snake Farm’ edition
Another Scruggs ex-partner is asking for sanctions
SH - Lawyer wants sanctions against Scruggs, seeks millions
SD EDITORIAL - A billion in punative damages?
A billion in punative damages?
ICLAWBLOG - McIntosh case: fraud claim dismissed
Graves Makes More Mississippi Denials, Again Choosing Words Carefully
Lincoln No-Settlement Stance Dodges Tobacco-Sized Injury Award
ICLAWBLOG - McIntosh case: fraud claim dismissed
Lawyer lash out at insurer in Katrina case
Hood to renew push for wiretap power in ‘09
FOLO - Senter on McIntosh: no fraud, no breach, but possible foul
ICLAWBLOG - Trailer Lawyer News: Who is Trailer Todd? Graves: I was with Goofy
YP - Why the prosecution of Minor AND Diaz was a very good thing
Will the real Trailer Todd please stand up
FOLO - The gory scene under the Moore-Brumfield bus
DM - Judge’s words scrutinized
DMBLOG - What really happened? (Stallings and Lackey)
LNL - Former AG’s name comes up during Lackey testimony
FOLO - In Oxford Eagle article, Moore throws PATTERSON under the bus
You too can sign the ‘Save Dickie Scruggs’ petition . . . no, I’m not kidding
ICLAWBLOG - April 17: Trailer Lawyer identity crisis, more on Moore
Todd Graves “categorically” denies meeting while US Attorney
Corrections to story about Lackey, Moore, Stallings
FOLO - Oxford reporters scoop like fiends!
ICLAWBLOG - April 17: Trailer Lawyer identity crisis, more on Moore
LNL - Former business partners bear the sins of Scruggs
Yet another domino falls - KLG lawyers get disqualified from RICO case
Trib’s Ganey: Todd Graves in Mississippi Misconduct Mess
Insurer accuses Missouri lawyers in Katrina case
Insider Baseball in SF v McIntosh - more lawyers DQ’d
AG denies being pressured in Katrina cases
ICLAWBLOG - Updates on Scruggs v. Jones hearing, April 16
FOLO - Judge Coleman rules for Jones side in sanctions hearing
Former AG Moore says he’s appalled’ by Lackey testimony
YP - Lawyer for RigsbyGals snarks bloggers . . . in a response in Qui Tam case
FOLO - Liveblogging Jones v. Scruggs Parts 5 & 6 - ‘An ethical lapse clearly’ . . . duh!
State Farm turns the tables on Hurricane Katrina lawyers
ICLAWBLOG - Jones v. Scruggs hearing today
From the YP Memory Division - HoodRoast 2005
FOLO - More liveblogging from the Jones v Scruggs - Lackey: “I did not know what kind of monster .
SH - Embattled tort attorney takes 5th over bribery questions
DJ - Scruggs takes the stands, says little
CL - Scruggs takes 5th over bribery questions
FOLO - Dickie Scruggs pleads the 5th in Jones v Scruggs
Hearing scheduled in Scruggs’ fee dispute
ICLAWBLOG - Rigsby Gals’ depositions
FOLO - Copious news on the Jones v Scruggs front– and some info about what the sanction may be
FOLO - This week in Scruggs, and for discussion: Just how much should the sanction be?
FOLO - One less headache for the beef-plant defendants - UPDATED
FOLO - What was Bill Skinner thinking?
Yo, DoJ, folo us to Bobby DeLaughter’s house
DeLaughter’s finances probed
Rigsby Gals DQ’d again . . . this time in Kreeger case
ICLAWBLOG - Trailer Lawyers move for stay of Ex rel. Rigsby
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs Lite, April 11
New filings in Rigsby Gals’ Qui Tam Case
Suspension of whistle-blower suit is sought
WLOX - Gulfport Couple Among Hundreds Scrambling For New Attorneys
Travis Childers and Joey Langston, Guilt by Association Volume 3
Travis Childers and Joey Langston, Guilt by Association Volume 2
The siege of State Farm
RAWSTORY Interviews MSSC Justice Oliver Diaz re: Minor and the Feds
Zach Scruggs won’t fight suspension
FOLO - NMHS and the “resolution counsel”: Shirts and Skins
Travis Childers and Joey Langston, Guilt by Association Volume 1
State Farm moves to dismiss Rigsby sisters’ False Claims Act, disqualify lawyers
State Farm files a truckload on its defense against Rigsby Gal’s Qui Tam Action
WSJVIDEO - Lawyers Gone Wild
State Farm seeks dismissal of whistle-blower case
Attorney General Jim Hood disagrees with the media
LNL - Scruggs’ actions cause disqualification of former business partners
FOLO - The Fifth Circuit reverses the punitive damages award in Broussard
ICLAWBLOG - Fifth Circuit reverses Broussard
FOLO - A Chronology of the Katrina and Scruggs cases from mid-2006 to January 2008
Scruggs Nation, April 5: the fall of the Scruggs Katrina Empire
Scruggs scandal developments, February 5
WSJLAWBLOG - Lawyers in State Farm Suits Barred for Payments to Witnesses
SH - Katrina lawyers disqualified
FOLO - Judge Senter disqualifies Katrina Group lawyers
ICLAWBLOG - Judge Senter disqualifies Katrina(less) Litigation Group, ousts Rigsby sisters
SH - Senter disqualifies Katrina Litigation attorneys from representing policyholders
YP BREAKING - Katrina Litigation Group & Risgby Gals disqualified in all State Farm cases
ICLAWBLOG - April 4, Scruggs Nation Supplement: bar fight ends
WSJ - Small Victories for Tort Reform
RSLC - MS: Taxpayers or Class Action Lawyers: Hood Must Decide
SH - Zach Scruggs appeals disbarment
YP - Opinion in Langston v. Pickering in favor of Pickering
Scruggs’ former business partner fights sexual harassment suit
LNL - Scruggs’ former business partner fights sexual harassment suit
Full Copy of the Lee Harrell Deposition
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs Nation, April 3: on ‘strike’ against Scruggs
ABA - Long Live the King of Torts?
LNL - Taxpayers or class action lawyers? Hood must choose sides in $14 million settlement
Taxpayers or class action lawyers? Hood must choose sides in $14 million settlement
Judge rules to send case involving $14 Million in MCI Legal Fees to Mississippi Court
REDBLUE - NY Bankruptcy Judge Rules for State Auditor in MCI Attorneys’ Fees Case
Bar presses for Scruggs’ ouster
Scruggs Nation, April 2: Live from Mississippi!
Bar wants Scruggs’ law license stripped
FOLO - Dickie Scruggs is actually fighting his disbarment
Left leaning ‘Alt’ pub takes crack at Dunn Lampton conviction of Paul Minor
Dickie Scruggs files to dismiss attempt to have him disbarred
Retirees stepping in for DeLaughter
Khayat does not see accepting Scruggs money for UM Law School ‘as an ethical issue at all’
New judge picked for old Scruggs’ lawsuit
Dickie Scruggs: A Legal Career Up In Smoke
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs Nation, March 31: the Scruggs is gone, long live the Scruggs?
FOLO - Scruggs says Judge Biggers hasn’t accepted his plea?!? - UPDATED
YP - Should Musgrove/Hood return dirty campaign dollars from those indicted/convicted?
Scruggs fights disbarment
SH - THE INVINCIBLE MAN
Keith Shelton Reinstated by MS Bar
ICLAWBLOG _ Recent Cori Rigsby deposition: hoped to remain anonymous
HOROWITZ - Dickie Scruggs: A Legal Career Up In Smoke
Dozens of cases on DeLaughter’s docket on hold
P&W - DeLaughter Officially Suspended
Insurance adjusters want suit reinstated
PI EDITORIAL -Trial Lawyers
FOLO - Zach writes to his friends
FOLO - What have we here?
FOLO - Hood hits a beef-plant (PR) lick
David Rossmiller on MPB re: Dickie Scruggs
FOLO - Who am I?
Judge to sit out during probe
ORLEYHOOD - Ask Dickie - our path is most fragile …
YP BREAKING - New Indictments in Beef Plant Scandal
DeLaughter won’t fight suspension
LNL - Katrina judge reminded of Scruggs outcome
MOTLEYFOOL - Payday Lenders Getting Stiff-Armed
Another YP Blogger starts new site - PhunkandWagnalls.net
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs Nation, March 25: the breather
FOLO - folo’s dozen questions about Scruggsiana
FOLO - In the dead of night, the sign gets edited…
LNL - Fight over Langston’s and Balducci’s millions appears headed for state court
WSJLAWBLOG - He’s Innocent! Or Not. When Defense Lawyers Talk to the Press
ICLAWBLOG - Scruggs Nation, March 24: ten unanswered questions
FCDBLOG - Reflections on the Dickie Scruggs Saga
FOLO - Words from and to John Grisham
FOLO - Another part of the Wilson-Luckey cases: How the Luckey case ended up in North Mississippi
NYT - Another Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Bribery Case
Zach Scruggs pleads guilty
SUNDAY MORNING WITH: Brad White, Executive Director, Mississippi Republican Party
Rulings in Scruggs’ cases suspect, lawyers say
FOLO lays out a stunner featuring Dickie and Judge Breland Hilburn
WSJ LTE - Why Do Lawyers Mouth Clients’ Ridiculous Alibis?
LNL - Junior Scruggs joins dad in pleading guilty
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Thursday at 10:59 pm
SH - Zach Scruggs prison date set - Aug 15
pk1414: It appears MM’s curve is straight up.
Thursday at 10:58 pm
Text of Zach Scruggs' Sentencing Hearing
ElPabloPolitico: Catty, I spend a lot of time in tippah county (where he is from). And yes I know Al and I like him. I like my dog too, but I wouldnt trust him to watch my ribeye.
Thursday at 9:51 pm
YallPolitics Announces the first annual "Scruggsies"
stopmdot: What happened to the monkeys?
Thursday at 9:44 pm
Text of Zach Scruggs' Sentencing Hearing
catty: elpablo......you obviously don’t even know Al Hopkins! How do you know he wouldn’t be the same stand -up guy as Biggers?  Many of us have known Hopkins a long time and we would gladly trade him anyday for Hood.  Problem…
Thursday at 9:44 pm
SH - Zach Scruggs prison date set - Aug 15
stopmdot: I know, MSlawyer.  But don’t you see that as the next step coming?  If Zach and his lawyers were delusional enough to think there would be no jail time, then they are delusional enough to think this tactic will work. …
Thursday at 8:57 pm
Text of Zach Scruggs' Sentencing Hearing
ElPabloPolitico: Al Hopkins is far from Judge Biggers.
Thursday at 8:56 pm
YallPolitics Announces the first annual "Scruggsies"
Stiff Pigeon: Anyone heard about the monkeys Mike Moore had in his back yard at his Lineage Lake subdivision home?  No kidding, he had three very large monkey cages brought into his backyard and assembled and his monkeys were placed in the…
Thursday at 8:46 pm
Session: Tangled mess for Barbour, lawmakers
Stiff Pigeon: Maybe P.L. Blake can tell us why Barbour is so opposed to a cigarette tax.  JD, his opposition to taxing cigarettes as a means to fund Medicaid is deeply buried in BS. Now he wants the courts to intervene and…
Thursday at 8:12 pm
SH - Zach Scruggs prison date set - Aug 15
MSlawyer: A criminal defendant does not have an absolute right to stay out of prison pending appeal.  A judge has to sign an order granting them that privilege.
Thursday at 8:09 pm
YallPolitics Announces the first annual "Scruggsies"
MSlawyer: Alan, this is hilarious!  Loved it!
Thursday at 7:37 pm
Text of Zach Scruggs' Sentencing Hearing
Sonny: The Kid, you’re right, he would make a terrific AG as the one we have now is a complete zero.  Trouble is, the state had a chance to elect someone just like Judge Biggers last November and too many liberal…
Thursday at 7:14 pm
Text of Zach Scruggs' Sentencing Hearing
TheKid: Judge Biggers should run for AG. He’d get my vote.
Thursday at 7:13 pm
WONKETTE - Missisippians believe 'women are for making babies and and the Negro is for slave labor'
Lynn: At first. Ken Layne’s depiction of MS made my bp rise until I reminded myself that those who matter know the truth far better than that despicable dolt. Pay no attention to that slavering fool. Remember, when you wrestle with…
Thursday at 4:37 pm
SH - Zach Scruggs prison date set - Aug 15
stopmdot: Ah, no, grasshopper.  You can stay out of jail pending appeal.
Thursday at 4:06 pm
YallPolitics Announces the first annual "Scruggsies"
wordisborn: Just when you think it can’t degenerate any further, either Moore or Hood jumps to the rescue.  They continue to nose each other out as ‘Bufoon of the Month’.  The only question now is how low can they go?  Word.…
Thursday at 2:39 pm
SH - Zach Scruggs prison date set - Aug 15
Alan: This whole appeal business is pretty stupid.  By the time the 5th Circuit hears it, he’ll be out of jail.
Thursday at 1:44 pm
SH - Zach Scruggs prison date set - Aug 15
JDBerry: Moore didn’t know that the wife of the orange-suited criminal defendant who was sentenced for running guns from Cleveland, Miss. to Chicago only minutes before Scruggs entered the federal court room had also written Biggers, requesting consideration due to the…
Thursday at 1:40 pm
Farish St. bill passes Senate on second try
Alan: That’s a good thing.  It needed to happen.
Thursday at 1:09 pm
Barbour has high ground in tobacco tax fight
ribald: Oh, s::::, I thought yall had gone ‘n got yuhsef a big ol’ deal thang wid big tobacca and they’s payin’ fur all them d’aid folk who gets sick and dies rat d’air - homefolks, wha’chall doin’ wid da’ Mi-ack…
Thursday at 12:57 pm
LNL - Junior Scruggs' tongue to blame for prison sentence
ribald: I think he’ll go with what the Order says....


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