Changes in Chancery Court

The MS Supreme Court is currently seeking comment, until November 10, 2008, on a change to Rules 8.05 of the Uniform Chancery Rules.This change would effect the ability to redact certain items on the written statement of income or to have the items not redacted but the statement placed under seal.

This seems like a pretty mundane move to protect people's privacy while still obtaining what is legally needed. Additionally, I think this is how things are done anyway and they are just now putting it officially in the rules.

Alpha

This blog is an outgrowth of the Mississippi Law blog in which I used to participate in with a couple other friends and lawyers. Their interest seemed to dwindle in the blog (as did mine at some point) but I believe their is a need for this information and I wanted to start my own singular blog as a measure of blogging manifest destiny. I will bring my posts from that site over here and pick up with my future blogging on this site only. I hope this will be a enjoyable and informative place for Mississippi legal news.

The Bailout Vote

As many of you may know by this point 3 of the 4 Representatives from Mississippi voted against the bailout yesterday. Of comments I have seen Rep. Childers from D-1 stated: "Hard-working families are struggling in the face of job losses and home foreclosures resulting from overall economic instability. They are justifiably angry about a bailout that would require them to dig deeper into their pockets to rescue Wall Street from it's own recklessness."

"Earlier this year, I voted against a budget that would raise the federal debt to an unprecedented level. Today, I was again compelled to vote my conscience against a massive debt increase."

The quote punctuation is a little iffy in the original from WJTV but it sounds like a quote to me.

Additionally, Gene Taylor from D-4 stated: "If there was a button that said 'Hell, no,' I'd push it," said Taylor. "I hate to use a cliché, but this falls into the category of throwing money at a problem and hope it works." according to the Sun-Herald.

Orders now available online for the MS Supreme Court and Court of Appeals

A note shared with the MS Bar through e-Newsletter I thought I would share:

Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Orders Are On Internet

Orders of the Mississippi Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals filed on or after Sept. 25, 2008, can be viewed via the Internet. Access to copies of court orders is available from the General Docket page on the Court's web site. Go to http://www.mssc.state.ms.us/appellate_courts/generaldocket.html.

Cases are searchable by cause number, party name or attorney name. Point-and-click access to court orders will not be available directly from the weekly hand down lists of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Gaining access to the full text of orders will require one to pull up the docket sheet for the individual case from the General Docket, then click on the link for the order. Orders will be available via the Internet on the day after they are filed. The web site is updated each evening. Appellate court orders filed from Sept. 25, 2008, forward, will be available as digital images. The Court does not plan to link to orders entered before that date.

Wicker v. Musgrove

In what appears to be a fairly close election between Roger Wicker (R) and Ronnie Musgrove (D) the CL reports the Wicker has more than doubled Musgrove's fundraising.

Chip Pickering

As Chip Pickering, U.S. House of Representatives member for the 3rd District wraps up his stint in Congress the CL give a nice historic wrap up of most of his time and accomplishments while in the House. A good read for those who would like to know more about him.

Additionally, for the less sunny side one can see the comments to the article where some Chip bashing occurs.

The Bailout Vote

For those interested in the Mississippi delegations vote on the Bailout last night Senators Cochran and Wicker both voted against the Senate version of the bailout.

This on the heels of Monday's vote where Reps. Thompson, Childers, and Taylor voted against the bill and Rep. Pickering voted for it.