In a switch, Gov. Bryant comes out for mandating health insurance contracts,...
Gov. Bryant wrote Blue Cross Blue Shield and said he was going to issue an executive order mandating they allow the hospitals they’d struck from their system back in, under the prior contract, until a...
View ArticleMore thoughts on the federal court BCBS case
BCBS has two arguments that seem real to me: The governor is violating their property rights by telling them they can’t invoke contract rights (to terminate), which is a due process violation; and...
View ArticleAn element for a TRO is proving likely success. Judge “is not holding that...
This appeared about 5 on the district court docket. I have added emphasis in the key passage.. Minute Entry for proceedings held before District Judge Henry T. Wingate. APPEARANCES: D. Kaufman and C....
View ArticlePress reports read the entrails and see things in BCBS ruling mere mortals...
Update: Jeff Amy of the AP points out in comments that Judge Wingate made a bench ruling not reflected on the Pacer docket. His story spelled this out (and I should have caught it): “U.S. District...
View ArticleKingfish reports: the Governor folds, withdraws executive order, and BCBS,...
Jackson Jambalaya reports that the Governor has issued a new executive order canceling the order requiring BCBS to reinstate the hospitals. He reports that BCBS announces it is “pleased.” And now...
View ArticleToday at the Mississippi Supreme Court
I have read it twice, and read both opinions in dissent. The majority opinion of this case seems to be holding that, because the defendant had the burden of proof on a defense, the trial court erred in...
View ArticleRemembering Taylor McElroy and Armis Hawkins on Armistice Day
Before it was Veterans Day, today would have been Armistice Day, because WWI ended on November 11th. The WWI vet I knew best was Taylor McElroy, who was a Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court in...
View ArticleThis Week at the Mississippi Supreme Court
Another quiet week at the Mississippi Supreme Court. Remember the discussion a while back about the demise of the presumption that a child born during a marriage was the child of the husband? Today,...
View ArticleI think many of us saw this coming: News from State v. Arnold Smith in Greenwood
The Greenwood Commonwealth reports that, while Dr. Arnold Smith is undergoing continued examinations concerning whether he is competent to be tried, his attorneys are preparing an insanity defense for...
View ArticleMerrell Williams, who gave (or sold) tobacco documents to Scruggs, dies at 72
Longtime Oxford folks may remember Abbie’s Irish Rose, one of the first bars in Oxford, that opened in what had been the lobby of the Henry Hotel, later renamed the Abbey (because it had windows from a...
View ArticleRichard Posner on judges as “cognitive misers”
Thinking is costly to the thinker in the sense of being difficult, time-consuming, and frustrating. People economize on thinking by using shortcuts, deferring to expert opinion (even if that requires...
View ArticleHaving said goodbye to the Bluebook, Judge Posner tosses it in the trash bin...
I am reading and hugely enjoying Richard Posner’s Reflections on Judging. The best book of its sort I have read in a very long time, at least half-way in. His subject is legal reasoning and writing,...
View ArticleJames Crockett’s new book, a look at Scruggs, DeLaughter and the gang: Power...
University Press of Mississippi has a new look out at the Minor – Scruggs – DeLaughter bribery cases, titled Power Greed Hubris: Judicial Bribery in Mississippi. This one is by James R. Crockett, a...
View ArticleSpies of Mississippi: Independent Lens documentary about the Mississippi...
The documentary Spies of Mississippi, a historhy of the Mississippi Soevereignty Commission, which was the segregationist spying agency funded by the State of Mississiippi in the 50s and 60s, is on...
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A new amusement park in DeSoto County?
Ride the equity slide! Measure your foot against the chancellor’s foot! From the courthouse in Hernando, Mississippi.
View ArticleThe Suspect Makes Clear He Is Knowingly Waiving His Rights.
From an actual interview. Investigator: Well, you know before I ask any questions, I have to advice you of your rights. Suspect: Yeah. I got the right to remain silent. Got the right to have an...
View ArticleChef Kelly English says no to proposed “Turn Away The Gays” bill in Tennessee...
Kelly English, the chef-owner of Restaurant Iris and Second Line in Memphis was already one of my favorite regional chefs and someone I knew to be a great guy. I’ve had his food a number of times and...
View ArticleAnachronisms that would not be missed if they disappeared
The calling of the criminal docket in Mississippi circuit court. Just waited through an exceptionally long one, and am still waiting for something to actually happen. In my experience, the only good...
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Notice to the World. But of What?
This is my favorite entry, ever, in a land records index, even better than those entries in 19th Century handwriting that looks like they were written in very artfully arranged but faint human hairs....
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