“I didn’t know — I don’t know Heather Bouse, didn’t know then whether Heather Bouse was black, white or what. During a deposition, Shepard says she believes the federal judge’s order to desegregate the Cleveland school district influenced the district’s choice of valedictorians. “…They were mostly concerned with white flight and not that of the black students or black community. Now East Side …
Attorney General Jim Hood announced Thursday that $34.4 million recovered mostly from a lawsuit settlement with the Moody’s Corporation was delivered to the state treasury. Hood had announced in January the state would receive more …
Attorney General Jim Hood has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the state against Google Inc. The lawsuit alleges that the company uses data collected from Mississippi public school students who have Google’s G Suite For Education accounts.
A federal lawsuit has been filed to declare Mississippi’s sodomy law unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed by five people with the alias Arthur Doe, Brenda Doe, Carol Doe, Diana Doe and Elizabeth Doe, says in 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the right to engage in certain intimate sexual conduct, historically known as sodomy, …
Attorney General Jim Hood, with assistance from Flowood attorney John Davidson, has sued eight pharmaceutical companies, alleging that they have promoted drugs like hydrocodone by understating the health risks and overstating the benefits — in violation of state law. Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane’s column said the lawsuit, based in Hinds County, could …
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Thursday, which sought to change the Mississippi state flag, according to ABC affiliate WLOX. Friday, Attorney Carlos Moore announced his intention to appeal the dismissal. Moore filed the suit, asking the flag be declared an unconstitutional relic of slavery.
A federal judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to have the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag declared an unconstitutional relic of slavery. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves ruled that the attorney who filed the suit, Carlos Moore, failed to show the emblem caused a “cognizable legal injury.” However, in dismissing the suit, Reeves also picked apart arguments made …
Charles Araujo, center, talks about the perceived injustice he and his wife, Evelyn, left, believe to be in the charter school system Thursday. (Photo: Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger) Flanked by her friend Monica Cannon-Butler, Midtown resident Shmea Kelly stood outside of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s downtown Jackson office Wednesday watching as parents and children shouted from a …
Rev. Susan Hrostowski is familiar with fighting for her and her family’s rights, even if that means going to court. She was one of the plaintiffs in the case that struck down Mississippi’s ban on same-sex adoption on March 31.
The ACLU has filed the first federal lawsuit contesting House Bill 1523. The lawsuit names the Mississippi State Registrar of Vital Records as the defendant because that state office would have to collect a list of clerks who are recusing themselves from issuing same-sex marriage licenses as allowed in House Bill 1523, the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act” …