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White Collar Crime Prof Blog
More on Public and Private Bribery
By Ellen Podgor
Yesterday, I talked a bit about a new consultation paper on the law of bribery issued by the Law Commission of England and Wales. One of the report’s most striking…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Balducci Pleads Guilty; Scruggs Pleads Not Guilty
By joetort
According to an article in the L.A. Times -- Lawyer admits bribing judge, from the Associated Press -- lawyer Timothy Balducci has pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe a Mississippi…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
The Defense of Dickie Scruggs
By Ellen Podgor
The week since the indictment of Mississippi tort lawyer Dickie Scruggs and four other defendants for allegedly trying to bribe a state court judge to rule in their favor in…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Limiting the Scope of Sun Diamond
By Ellen Podgor
The Second Circuit issued an opinion in the case of U.S. v. Ganim, a case with multiple convictions including RICO, honest services mail fraud, bribery under section 666, conspiracy, and…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
More on the Scruggs Indictment for Allegedly Attempting to Bribe a Mississippi State Judge
By joetort
The Wall Street Journal has more on the Dickie Scruggs indictment for allegedly attempting to bribe a Mississippi state judge in the Katrina insurance litigation -- It's Party Time for…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Balducci Cooperating with Government in Alleged Attempted Bribery Case?
By joetort
The Wall Street Journal has an article -- In Scruggs Probe, Focus Turns to Another Lawyer, by Peter Lattman and Ashby Jones -- that suggests that Timothy Balducci is cooperating…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Dickie Scruggs
The media is ablaze with discussion of this whole Dickie Scruggs indictment/bribery circus. I don’t expect I am going to have much to say about it - ever -on this…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Is Bribery the way out of Legal Malpractice Problems?
Mississippi seems like the wild west of litigation. When personal injury attorneys here speak of the Bronx with reverence, it pales in comparison. Here is a story of big tobacco,…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
PING: An insightful look at the charges against ScruggsURL: http://www.insurancecoverageblog.com/archives/industry-developments-an-insightful-look-at-the-charges-against-scruggs.htmlIP: 206.135.15.187BLOG NAME: Insurance Coverage BlogDATE: 12/03/2007 09:24:12 AMYou’ll want to check out this excellent post by Peter Henning at White Collar Crime Prof Blog that analyzes the strength of the federal charges against Scruggs….
By Ellen Podgor
Mississippi plaintiffs tort lawyer Dickie Scruggs, his son, another lawyer in his firm, and a lawyer and staffer from a different firm have been charged in a six-count indictment (available…
InsureReinsure
Dickie Scruggs Indicted for Attempting to Bribe a Judge
On InsureReinsure.com, we strive to provide information about issues involving the insurance and reinsurance world and we rarely deal with criminal proceedings but there are instances, however, when alleged criminal…