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Breaking: Dickie Scruggs Pleads Guilty Or: Now he's officially the slimeball you always suspected him to be. This just in, from the AP: Powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard ''Dickie'' Scruggs and a co-defendant pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to bribe a judge for a favorable ruling in a case involving legal fees from a post-Hurricane Katrina lawsuit. The surprise plea came Friday during a hearing in Oxford, Miss. on pretrial matters, court officials said. His trial was set to begin at the
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This just in: Wire reports have confirmed that famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard ???Dickie??? Scruggs has pleaded guilty to a bribery charge. ...
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Let??s round off this Wednesday with a couple quick hits from L??Affaire Scruggs. Dickie Scruggs??s son, Zach, earlier this week asked Judge Neal Biggers to ...
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AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis By JOSEPH RHEE Attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, famous for winning billions of dollars from the big tobacco companies, ...Scruggs Pleads Guilty Wall Street Journal
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Zach Scruggs, Dickie Scruggs&39 son, also has asked to be tried separately. Backstrom&39s latest motion, filed Wednesday, says "that two recent rulings by this ...
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Update: More on Mr. Scruggs. Prosecutors are going to recommend five years for him, 2.5 for co-defendant Sidney Backstrom, according to the wires. Zach is apparently going to trial. * * * So much for Manic Mississippi Monday. That day, March 31, was supposed to be the start-date of the trial for Dickie Scruggs, who stands accused of conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge in a lawsuit involving a fee-dispute with former cohorts. For earlier posts on L??Affaire Scruggs, click here. But, on
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Federal prosecutors are rolling out their bribery evidence against tort baron Dickie Scruggs, and the drama includes wiretaps, secret meetings and code ...
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Scruggs Pleads Guilty The Sun-Herald is reporting that attorney Dickie Scruggs has pled guilty: Powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in a judicial bribery case. The surprise plea came Friday during a hearing in Oxford on pretrial matters in advance of his scheduled March 31 trial.
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The WSJ and Mississippi's WLOX have the news up. Earlier today, the Journal had an illuminating page-one feature on Dickie Scruggs's history of fee disputes with other lawyers. YallPolitics' server seems to be down at the moment from traffic, but in an email alert, YP's Alan Lange said the surprise plea came three days before the deadline for Scruggs to plead before his approaching trial.
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Powerful attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and a co-defendant pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to bribe a judge in a case involving legal fees from a post-Hurricane Katrina lawsuit.
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AP - Powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and a co-defendant pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to bribe a judge for a favorable ruling in a case involving legal fees from a post-Hurricane Katrina lawsuit.
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Lott lawyers up Subscription Required Julie Kay / Staff reporter Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has retained Washington, D.C., white-collar defense lawyer Thomas Green to advise him on his potential testimony in the case involving bribery allegations against Mississippi lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs. Green insisted that, contrary to published reports, Lott is not under investigation. ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY It's not purely a civil matter Ignoring
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OXFORD, Miss. AP ?? Mississippi plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in a judicial bribery case.
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The state??s second-largest newspaper says it??s time to investigate Mississippi??s embattled medical examiner. And in pretty strong language: Even if it means that all of the cases that Hayne and West worked on come under review, the investigation should advance. Even if it costs thousands of dollars and thousands of hours, it will be worth it if even one person wrongly convicted is freed or wins a new trial. ?? The Innocence Project should be commended for its efforts and the Mississippi ju
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I started hearing strong rumors of a plea agreement this morning, and it turns out to be true. Here's a breaking story from Holbrook Mohr of the AP. More to come later. Also, let me be the first to point out -- apparently it wasn't Too Dumb For Dickie. UPDATE: Backstrom too. No word yet on Zach, I just heard from someone at the courthouse for the hearing on Zach's motion to dismiss, apparently as of this writing 9:25 a.m. Pacific time, the hearing is still going on.
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You've come to the right place. Dickie Scruggs, the gazillionare plaintiff's attorney and recently 'outed' alleged briber, has about three weeks until he's tried along with his son and one of his associates who has not yet confessed - several other of his associates have confessed. My suspicion is that even more associates will be indicted in the coming weeks. His one thousand dollar an hour defense lawyer he's hired from California is putting forth the defense of not guilty - that the gover
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???Powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard ???Dickie??? Scruggs and a co-defendant pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to bribe a judge,??? according to press reports. ???The surprise plea came Friday during a hearing in Oxford, Miss. on pretrial matters, court officials said.??? Scruggs is the brother-in-law of Sen. Trent Lott, who abruptly announced his resignation from Congress in November.
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This situation is this: Scruggs has been accused of conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge in a lawsuit involving a fee-dispute with former cohorts. ...Tort King&39s Path to Bribery Charge Wall Street Journal
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Twice Zach Scruggs' attorneys filed motions arguing that this particular defendant's case be dismissed. Do you smell a possible part of a plea deal? In exchange for his son being let off the hook, perhaps Dickie is bargaining with the Feds to plead guilty to whatever, sing like a bird, and serve a reasonable sentence. Scruggs-watchers have been predicting that this case will never go to trial, as scheduled on March 31st. They have heavily speculated that Dickie will do whatever in a plea ar
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Zach Scruggs' motion for dismissal of the bribery indictment against him sustained the theatrical momentum in this legal web of intrigue and backstabbing. The motion charged that key government witness Timothy Balducci is not the solid rat he claims to be but nothing but a liar. In fact, the motion argued that Balducci had perjured himself. The response to the motion from prosecutors was predictable, lacking any fireworks. In LEGAL NEWSLINE, John O'Brien reports the government contends, "Th
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The state's second-largest newspaper says it's time to investigate Mississippi's embattled medical examiner. And in pretty strong language: Even if it means that all of the cases that Hayne and West worked on come under review, the investigation should advance. Even if it costs thousands of dollars and thousands of hours, it will be worth it if even one person wrongly convicted is freed or wins a new trial. ... The Innocence Project should be commended for its efforts and the Mississippi
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USA v. Scruggs has had a flurry of motions in recent days that will be argued at a hearing tomorrow, and then you know what Monday is -- last day for plea bargains. Here are the motions. Motion to sever. This motion, which is a second try at coming up with reasons why the trial of Sid Backstrom and Zach Scruggs Zach also endorsed or joined in the motion should be separate from that of Dickie Scruggs, contains this interesting passage: The impaneling of an ???anonymous jury??? is seldom used in
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As Shakespeare depicted in play after play, the crowd is fickle. That crowd now includes the surfers on the web. Since the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke yesterday, page views for that other alleged miscreant Dickie Scruggs have fallen off about 65 percent. What will it take to get Scruggs back on our radar screens? A combo of two factors could do it: Spitzer's resignation and a Scruggs' deal with the Feds.
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Dow Jones Newswires Richard ???Dickie??? Scruggs: The lawyer who extracted millions from cigarette makers became a federal informant after he was discovered ...
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Manic Mississippi Monday is rapidly approaching. That??s March 31, the start-date of the trial for Dickie Scruggs. For all those new to the story, or for all those old readers wondering how Scruggs may have gotten himself into into this situation, check out this page-one WSJ story today. For earlier posts on L??Affaire Scruggs, click here. This situation is this: Scruggs has been accused of conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge in a lawsuit involving a fee-dispute with former cohorts. But it??
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We all noticed it, at least us Dunne watchers. For two months running, there have been no Dominick Dunne columns in VANITY FAIR. The April one doesn't have one. Neither did the March one. The last time we heard from this Greek Chorus of American justice was in February on the Phil Spector mistrial. That coverage was not the best of Dunne. The best of Dunne is given to us when he can overcome his seeming innate self-absorption and fuse with the trial. That he seemed unable to do in the Spe
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By John Bresnahan The Politico In a surprised room, famed trial lawyer Richard "Dickie: Scruggs, brother-in-law of former Sen. Trent Lott R-Miss. ...
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Emily Wagster Pettus, AP This is a May 31, 2007 file photograph of prominent Mississippi attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, taken in Jackson, Miss. ...
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On Friday I linked to a post at Law and More that discussed a recent American Lawyer article on Dickie Scruggs. I gave my quick take on Scruggs, without having read the article, but later that day I had a chance to read the story, by Susan Beck. I thought this article was very well-done, but I think it rushes by some of the more significant hypotheses one can frame about Scruggs. Here's a direct link to the Law and More post, and here's a link to the American Laywer article on Law.com. I al
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Breaking: Dickie Scruggs Pleads Guilty Or: Now he's officially the slimeball you always suspected him to be.
Breaking: Dickie Scruggs Pleads Guilty Or: Now he's officially the slimeball you always suspected him to be. This just in, from the AP: Powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard ''Dickie'' Scruggs and a co-defendant pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to bribe a judge for a favorable ruling in a case involving legal fees from a post-Hurricane Katrina lawsuit. The surprise plea came Friday during a hearing in Oxford, Miss. on pretrial matters, court officials said. His trial was set to begin at the
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Breaking News: Scruggs Pleads Guilty - Wall Street Journal
This just in: Wire reports have confirmed that famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard ???Dickie??? Scruggs has pleaded guilty to a bribery charge. ...
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L??Affaire Scruggs: Zach??s Latest Move and Dickie??s Bad Decade - Wall Street Journal
Let??s round off this Wednesday with a couple quick hits from L??Affaire Scruggs. Dickie Scruggs??s son, Zach, earlier this week asked Judge Neal Biggers to ...
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Famed Attorney &39Dickie&39 Scruggs Pleads Guilty to Bribery Charges - ABC News
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis By JOSEPH RHEE Attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, famous for winning billions of dollars from the big tobacco companies, ...Scruggs Pleads Guilty Wall Street Journal
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Backstrom calls for separate trial again - Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Zach Scruggs, Dickie Scruggs&39 son, also has asked to be tried separately. Backstrom&39s latest motion, filed Wednesday, says "that two recent rulings by this ...
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Breaking News: Scruggs Pleads Guilty
Update: More on Mr. Scruggs. Prosecutors are going to recommend five years for him, 2.5 for co-defendant Sidney Backstrom, according to the wires. Zach is apparently going to trial. * * * So much for Manic Mississippi Monday. That day, March 31, was supposed to be the start-date of the trial for Dickie Scruggs, who stands accused of conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge in a lawsuit involving a fee-dispute with former cohorts. For earlier posts on L??Affaire Scruggs, click here. But, on
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The Dickie Scruggs Tapes - Wall Street Journal
Federal prosecutors are rolling out their bribery evidence against tort baron Dickie Scruggs, and the drama includes wiretaps, secret meetings and code ...
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Scruggs Pleads Guilty
Scruggs Pleads Guilty The Sun-Herald is reporting that attorney Dickie Scruggs has pled guilty: Powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in a judicial bribery case. The surprise plea came Friday during a hearing in Oxford on pretrial matters in advance of his scheduled March 31 trial.
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Scruggs in guilty plea
The WSJ and Mississippi's WLOX have the news up. Earlier today, the Journal had an illuminating page-one feature on Dickie Scruggs's history of fee disputes with other lawyers. YallPolitics' server seems to be down at the moment from traffic, but in an email alert, YP's Alan Lange said the surprise plea came three days before the deadline for Scruggs to plead before his approaching trial.
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???Insider?? lawyer pleads guilty in bribery case
Powerful attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and a co-defendant pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to bribe a judge in a case involving legal fees from a post-Hurricane Katrina lawsuit.
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Miss. attorney pleads in bribery case AP
AP - Powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and a co-defendant pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to bribe a judge for a favorable ruling in a case involving legal fees from a post-Hurricane Katrina lawsuit.
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Lott lawyers up
Lott lawyers up Subscription Required Julie Kay / Staff reporter Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has retained Washington, D.C., white-collar defense lawyer Thomas Green to advise him on his potential testimony in the case involving bribery allegations against Mississippi lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs. Green insisted that, contrary to published reports, Lott is not under investigation. ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY It's not purely a civil matter Ignoring
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OXFORD, Miss. AP ?? Mississippi plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in a judicial bribery case.
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Hattiesburg American Calls for Comprehensive Review of Dr. Hayne
The state??s second-largest newspaper says it??s time to investigate Mississippi??s embattled medical examiner. And in pretty strong language: Even if it means that all of the cases that Hayne and West worked on come under review, the investigation should advance. Even if it costs thousands of dollars and thousands of hours, it will be worth it if even one person wrongly convicted is freed or wins a new trial. ?? The Innocence Project should be commended for its efforts and the Mississippi ju
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Scruggs Nation, the Reckoning: Dickie Scruggs pleads guilty
I started hearing strong rumors of a plea agreement this morning, and it turns out to be true. Here's a breaking story from Holbrook Mohr of the AP. More to come later. Also, let me be the first to point out -- apparently it wasn't Too Dumb For Dickie. UPDATE: Backstrom too. No word yet on Zach, I just heard from someone at the courthouse for the hearing on Zach's motion to dismiss, apparently as of this writing 9:25 a.m. Pacific time, the hearing is still going on.
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You've come to the right place. Dickie Scruggs, the gazillionare plaintiff's attorney and recently 'outed' alleged briber, has about three weeks until he's tried along with his son and one of his associates who has not yet confessed - several other of his associates have confessed. My suspicion is that even more associates will be indicted in the coming weeks. His one thousand dollar an hour defense lawyer he's hired from California is putting forth the defense of not guilty - that the gover
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Deals of the Day: Carlyle Calls It Bygones
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Trent Lott??s Bro-In-Law Pleads Guilty to Bribing
???Powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard ???Dickie??? Scruggs and a co-defendant pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to bribe a judge,??? according to press reports. ???The surprise plea came Friday during a hearing in Oxford, Miss. on pretrial matters, court officials said.??? Scruggs is the brother-in-law of Sen. Trent Lott, who abruptly announced his resignation from Congress in November.
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Attorneys?? Fees: The Source of Many Headaches for Dickie Scruggs - Wall Street Journal
This situation is this: Scruggs has been accused of conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge in a lawsuit involving a fee-dispute with former cohorts. ...Tort King&39s Path to Bribery Charge Wall Street Journal
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What Could Be Going Down in Scruggsville?
Twice Zach Scruggs' attorneys filed motions arguing that this particular defendant's case be dismissed. Do you smell a possible part of a plea deal? In exchange for his son being let off the hook, perhaps Dickie is bargaining with the Feds to plead guilty to whatever, sing like a bird, and serve a reasonable sentence. Scruggs-watchers have been predicting that this case will never go to trial, as scheduled on March 31st. They have heavily speculated that Dickie will do whatever in a plea ar
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Balducci-as-Liar Motion by Zach Scruggs Gets Predictable Response from Prosecutors
Zach Scruggs' motion for dismissal of the bribery indictment against him sustained the theatrical momentum in this legal web of intrigue and backstabbing. The motion charged that key government witness Timothy Balducci is not the solid rat he claims to be but nothing but a liar. In fact, the motion argued that Balducci had perjured himself. The response to the motion from prosecutors was predictable, lacking any fireworks. In LEGAL NEWSLINE, John O'Brien reports the government contends, "Th
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Hattiesburg American Calls for Investigation of Hayne
The state's second-largest newspaper says it's time to investigate Mississippi's embattled medical examiner. And in pretty strong language: Even if it means that all of the cases that Hayne and West worked on come under review, the investigation should advance. Even if it costs thousands of dollars and thousands of hours, it will be worth it if even one person wrongly convicted is freed or wins a new trial. ... The Innocence Project should be commended for its efforts and the Mississippi
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Scruggs Nation, March 13: more motions, more folly about publicity
USA v. Scruggs has had a flurry of motions in recent days that will be argued at a hearing tomorrow, and then you know what Monday is -- last day for plea bargains. Here are the motions. Motion to sever. This motion, which is a second try at coming up with reasons why the trial of Sid Backstrom and Zach Scruggs Zach also endorsed or joined in the motion should be separate from that of Dickie Scruggs, contains this interesting passage: The impaneling of an ???anonymous jury??? is seldom used in
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Dickie Who? - Scruggs Scandal Knocked Off Radar Screen by Client 9
As Shakespeare depicted in play after play, the crowd is fickle. That crowd now includes the surfers on the web. Since the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke yesterday, page views for that other alleged miscreant Dickie Scruggs have fallen off about 65 percent. What will it take to get Scruggs back on our radar screens? A combo of two factors could do it: Spitzer's resignation and a Scruggs' deal with the Feds.
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Deals of the Day: Carlyle??s Rubenstein Calls It Bygones - Wall Street Journal
Dow Jones Newswires Richard ???Dickie??? Scruggs: The lawyer who extracted millions from cigarette makers became a federal informant after he was discovered ...
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Attorneys?? Fees: The Source of Many Headaches for Dickie Scruggs
Manic Mississippi Monday is rapidly approaching. That??s March 31, the start-date of the trial for Dickie Scruggs. For all those new to the story, or for all those old readers wondering how Scruggs may have gotten himself into into this situation, check out this page-one WSJ story today. For earlier posts on L??Affaire Scruggs, click here. This situation is this: Scruggs has been accused of conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge in a lawsuit involving a fee-dispute with former cohorts. But it??
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We all noticed it, at least us Dunne watchers. For two months running, there have been no Dominick Dunne columns in VANITY FAIR. The April one doesn't have one. Neither did the March one. The last time we heard from this Greek Chorus of American justice was in February on the Phil Spector mistrial. That coverage was not the best of Dunne. The best of Dunne is given to us when he can overcome his seeming innate self-absorption and fuse with the trial. That he seemed unable to do in the Spe
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Dickie Scruggs Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy - CBS News
By John Bresnahan The Politico In a surprised room, famed trial lawyer Richard "Dickie: Scruggs, brother-in-law of former Sen. Trent Lott R-Miss. ...
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Top US trial lawyer pleads guilty to conspiring to bribe a ... - Prince George Citizen
Emily Wagster Pettus, AP This is a May 31, 2007 file photograph of prominent Mississippi attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, taken in Jackson, Miss. ...
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Scruggs Nation, March 10
On Friday I linked to a post at Law and More that discussed a recent American Lawyer article on Dickie Scruggs. I gave my quick take on Scruggs, without having read the article, but later that day I had a chance to read the story, by Susan Beck. I thought this article was very well-done, but I think it rushes by some of the more significant hypotheses one can frame about Scruggs. Here's a direct link to the Law and More post, and here's a link to the American Laywer article on Law.com. I al
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