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Fed’l. Judge and Mississippi AG are in Name-Calling Contest

Posted Jun 6, 2008, 02:48 pm CDT
By Martha Neil

Although recommending no civil or criminal penalties, a federal judge didn't hold back when he criticized Mississippi's attorney general, Jim Hood, in a written opinion issued yesterday. In no uncertain terms, he reportedly says Hood went too far when he allegedly helped Richard Scruggs, a prominent Mississippi plaintiffs attorney who has since been disgraced, evade a court order concerning confidential insurance company documents related to Hurricane Katrina.

U.S. District Judge Acker calls Hood a "so-called law enforcement officer" in the opinion, which concerns Scruggs' handover of the documents that two clients had obtained from a former employer to Hood, rather than to the former employer's lawyer. But that may not be the worst of it: "This court now finds by… Continue reading...

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