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The Estate of Claud L. Johnson, Deceased: Michael Johnson, Executor v. The Kitchens Law Firm, P.A. –  contingency fee contract survives death – The Kitchens law firm represented Claud Johnson in his quest to be declared the…
Continue Reading Decisions – COA – 8/27/2019

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Derrick Nelson  v. State of Mississippi – imperfect self defense – Nelson  was convicted of murdering his mother’s boyfriend Willie Hood, Jr. after he, Hood, and others had been drinking at a party to celebrate Nelson’s younger…
Continue Reading Decisions – MSSC – 8/22/2019

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Lisa Diann Crew v. Sidney Ellis Tillotson Jr  –  equitable division of property –  A North Carolina court granted Sidney Ellis Tillotson Jr. (Ellis) and Lisa Crew a divorce.  Lisa then filed a complaint for equitable…
Continue Reading Decisions – COA – 8/20/2019

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Mississippi Department of Human Services and Richard Berry, in His Capacity of Executive Director of MDHS v. D.C., by and through his Next Friend and Natural Mother, Georgia Morin –  suit against DHS for sexual abuse by…
Continue Reading Decisions – MSSC – 8/15/2019

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Itta Bena Plantation III and Benchmark Insurance Company v. Raymond L. Gates – workers compensation – Gates suffered a work-related back injury while employed as a tractor driver for Itta Bena Plantation.  Gates’s employer stipulated that the…
Continue Reading Decisions – COA – 8/13/2019

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Mississippi Sand Solutions, LLC v. Bessie Otis, et al. – trespass – Mississippi Sand Solutions (M had been hauling gravel and sand off its property via a private road on property belonging to the Fisher heirs.…
Continue Reading Decisions – MSSC – 8/8/2019

At 1:00 the COA will hear the case of Charles Dalton Shoemake v. the State of Mississippi. Shoemake and his friend Nicholas Walker murdered his former drug dealer. This was after Miller outlawed automatic life sentences for juveniles yet the…
Continue Reading Oral arg. – COA – 8/13/2019