Miscellaneous

a stifled dissent . . .
State Supreme Court Bans Sitting Justice From Filing His Dissent The Mississippi Supreme Court ordered one of its sitting justices not to publish his dissent with the Court's majority decision...

State Supreme Court Bans Sitting Justice From Filing His Dissent
The Mississippi Supreme Court ordered one of its sitting justices not to publish his dissent with the Court's majority decision. Apparently the Court stopped its court clerk from filing Justice Oliver Diaz's opinion into the record...

Life Imitates Art in Mississippi Supreme Court
In an unprecedented action, the Mississippi Supreme Court attempted to bar the publication of a dissenting opinion by a sitting Supreme Court Justice. The case is a wrongful death case called Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board v...

Dissent-ion in the Court: First Mississippi, Now Texas
In August, we imagined it was quite rare — if not “a first” — for a court to prevent one of its members from filing a dissent. We can’t call it a trend yet, but perhaps the practice is catching on...

"Dissent upsets high court; Majority stifled fellow justice's opinion, only to OK it after media calls, Diaz says"
"Dissent upsets high court; Majority stifled fellow justice's opinion, only to OK it after media calls, Diaz says": This article appeared last Saturday in The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi.

Appellate Decisionmaking: Unanimity or Dissent
The graph above is based on a review of almost 400 CAFC patent decisions that include a dissent. To calculate the percent of patent decisions that include a dissent, I pulled each decision associated with each judge and then added...

Mississippi Antitrust
Costs Microsoft $100 Million

State Farm
Settles with Mississippi Attorney General

Laurin Maritime et al
Class Action Launched Against Companies Responsible for Mississippi Oil Spill

Hurricane Claims
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. reaches settlement deal with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.