THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2010 |
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OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The son of disgraced plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs wants the guilty plea he entered in his father's judicial bribery scheme to be vacated.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2010 |
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JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Recently released documents show that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood asked for the advice of plaintiffs attorneys who later became felons when crafting a rebuttal to a 2007 Wall Street Journal editorial.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010 |
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JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Opponents of Mississippi Auditor Stacey Pickering say he has spent too much time and taxpayer money fighting $14 million in attorneys fees for private lawyers hired to represent the State.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010 |
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JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Mississippi Auditor Stacey Pickering is determing whether he should appeal a court ruling that will allow a pair of admitted felons to keep the millions of dollars they made representing the State.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 04, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday recognized two of the prosecutors who worked on the judicial bribery scandal involving famed plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009 |
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JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Throughout the downfall of famed plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, visitors to Mississippi political Web site Y'All Politics noted that the saga would make a good book.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009 |
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OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - One of the attorneys fees disputes that brought down famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has been settled.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009 |
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ABERDEEN, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Former Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter received an 18-month prison sentence Friday, becoming the latest Mississippi legal figure to be punished for his role in a judicial bribery scheme.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009 |
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HOUSTON, Texas (Legal Newsline)-A federal judge in Texas will hear a lawsuit claiming that disgraced former trial attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and several others conspired to defraud a former colleague of millions of dollars in legal fees.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 |
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TUPELO, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Two of disgraced plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs' former business partners are suing him, claiming part of the money owed to them from a tobacco settlement was used to further one of Scruggs' judicial bribery schemes.
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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2009 |
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ABERDEEN, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Former Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter pleaded guilty Thursday to misleading FBI investigators in a judicial bribery case involving disgraced plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2009 |
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OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter plans to plead guilty to lying to an FBI agent who was investigating a case over which DeLaughter presided involving disgraced plaintiffs lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.
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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009 |
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OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge won't dismiss a civil lawsuit against incarcerated plaintiffs attorney Richard Scruggs, but he will put it on hold until the judicial bribery trial of Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter is over.
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MONDAY, JULY 13, 2009 |
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OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - On the deadline for filing, Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter's defense team submitted five pretrial motions in his judicial bribery case then asked for more time to react to their results.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009 |
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OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Federal attorneys say they don't care how Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter ruled in a fees dispute involving incarcerated plaintiffs lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, just that he took a bribe.
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MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2009 |
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OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - There is no need for a pretrial hearing on the admissibility of statements implicating Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter in a bribery scheme, federal prosecutors are arguing.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009 |
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TUPELO, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The son of disgraced plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs is out of an Arkansas prison and back in Mississippi.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009 |
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OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - The lawyer allegedly cheated by famed plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs feels he should given more than $400,000 seized during the investigation of one of two Scruggs judicial bribery schemes.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2009 |
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BY VICTORIA JOHNSON HOGGATT
ABERDEEN, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Famous federal prisoner Richard "Dickie" Scruggs was expected to enter a second guilty plea related to a second Mississippi judicial bribery scheme on Feb. 10, and he did, in a dark suit and leg irons.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2009 |
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BY STAFF REPORTS
OXFORD, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Former Mississippi Auditor Steven Patterson and attorney Timothy Balducci each received a two-year prison sentence Friday for their roles in the judicial bribery scheme of famed plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.
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