Singing River is back in federal court asking Judge Louis Guirola to stop 152 lawsuits filed by SRHS retirees in the Jackson County Circuit Court. Judge Guirola heard a similar motion in January and decided to take the motion under advisement since the suits had not been served; attorneys Harvey Barton and Earl Denham served …
SRHS has filed its response to a Denham and Barton’s Supreme Court appeal. SRHS asks the Court to deny the appeal and to issue sanctions against Denham and Barton for filing three motion in six weeks. Read the full motion by clicking here.
While all of Jackson County has been paying close attention to the fact that Barry Cumbest has been using elected office to lobby for projects that touch upon lands owned by him and his family, there is another conflict of interest that has been overlooked: he is a member of the putative class in the …
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Canon 1 of the Code of Judicial Conduct provides: An independent and honorable judiciary is indispensable to justice in our society. A judge should participate in establishing, maintaining, and enforcing high standards of conduct, and shall personally observe those standards so that the integrity and independence of the judiciary will be preserved. It was a …
Singing River has filed their response to the Mississippi Supreme Court on Denham and Barton’s Petition for Sanctions. You can read it here.
With all of the responses in to the Mississippi Supreme Court, it’s time to start sorting out what exactly happened. The responses are lacking, but we endeavor to distill truth and fact from what has been presented to the Court. They have a tremendous undertaking before them. We first wish to understand the sequence of …
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Reading the response of Special Fiduciary Steve Simpson opens more holes and questions: Why does Simpson not mention the orders he asked Judge Hilburn to sign? How does a judge hear an oral motion when there is no hearing? How did Simpson know to have Hilburn sign the motions at that meeting? Were there earlier, …
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In reading the responses to the Miss. Supreme Court, the phrase “missing the forest for the trees” springs to mind. It seems that all parties involved have become so focused on the competing federal and chancery cases, they forget the underlying and undeniable facts. Subsequent to the ex parte hearing, six separate orders were entered …
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Editor’s note: We are not going to do any analysis or comment on the ex partay until all the kids hand in their homework. In the meantime, the infamous Nunn Yabidnez weighs in on the ex partay, centered around the rule that forbids anyone from “earwigging the Chancellor” or “putting a bug in his ear.” …