Jack Elliott Jr

December 10, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Certain gun owners can carry concealed weapons even in areas where a local government has posted signs banning them, the attorney general's office said Thursday in an opinion aimed at clarifying Mississippi's gun laws.

By Jack Elliott Jr.

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November 26, 2013 | Daily Report Online

JACKSON, Miss. -- An atheist group and the Rankin County School District have settled a lawsuit over allegations that high school students were forced to attend on-campus programs where fellow students urged them to turn to Jesus for hope and eternal life.

By JACK ELLIOTT JR.

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November 11, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The majority-black Greenwood Leflore Hospital Board is appealing an $82,000 award to a white attorney who argued he was a victim of discrimination.

By Jack Elliott Jr.

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July 13, 2011 | Daily Report Online

By Jack Elliott Jr.

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March 24, 2008 | National Law Journal

The last defendant in the bribery case that brought down powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs -- his son -- pleaded guilty Friday in a deal with federal prosecutors that could keep him out of prison. Zach Scruggs pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony. He, his father and three others were originally charged with conspiring to bribe a judge in a dispute over $26.5 million in legal fees. Richard Scruggs pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to bribe a judge.

By Jack Elliott Jr.

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October 18, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a $103 million jury verdict to businessman Lavon Evans Jr. who claimed a Chicago law firm defrauded him.

By Jack Elliott Jr.

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December 03, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Attorneys for Texaco Inc. asked the Mississippi Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a $17 million verdict. They say no evidence showed the oil company was responsible for ailments of children born to five women who claimed exposure to leaded gasoline fumes.

By Jack Elliott, Jr.

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October 02, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Attorneys for death row inmate Howard Dean Goodin have renewed claims that he is mentally retarded and told the Mississippi Supreme Court that examinations support those arguments.

By Jack Elliott Jr.

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May 29, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Tom Christmas and his wife argue they didn't discover the 84-plus alligators on land next to their homestead until four years after they bought the property in southwest Mississippi.

By Jack Elliott Jr.

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January 03, 2002 | Law.com

A federal judge in Jackson, Miss., said Thursday he's ready to approve a settlement in Mississippi's long-running college desegregation case if the Legislature assures him it supports the $500 million pact. The agreement to end the suit, originally filed in 1975, provides millions of dollars for programs and facilities at three historically black schools -- Jackson State, Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley.

By Jack Elliott Jr.

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