Comments on: Scruggs indictment, day two

By: Inside Business Controls » The Firm

Inside Business Controls » The Firm — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:48:37 +0000

[…] those of now-convicted tort king Dickie Scruggs, Milberg’s mass-tort claims gave an incentive for settlements divorced from actual justice. The […]

By: stephen gowan

stephen gowan — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:13:40 +0000

I not a scruggs fan at all. But there is really something fishy here. First in Mississippi, if there is an arbitration agreement it is going to be enforced. So why would any lawyer pay to have an arbitration agreement enforced. It simply would not happen. On first reading it looks bad. Then you realize you have no quotes from Scruggs or any other defendants except Balduci who appears to have been wearing a wire. You mean they are stupid enough to bribe a judge to get an arbitration ruling they were going to win at trial level or on interlocutory appeal but they were too smart to talk about it on tape. Hell any first year law school graduate could win this case

By: M.Williams

M.Williams — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:37:55 +0000

“A porta se fechou. Eramos agora apenas o rico Dickey e eu. E um grande, grosso e gordo envelope cheio de grana.” If you don’t know Portugese, you’ll have to wait for the book in English. If you do, one might well recall how Zeus got his first billion. It’s like Thomas Wolfe says, “…somethings never change….”

By: countertop

countertop — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:37:52 +0000

I just can’t help but wonder if this has anything to do with Scruggs Bro in Law’s Trent Lott sudden resignation.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:36:40 +0000

I recall instapundit had a post or two about how Trent Lott was using his re-election to a leadership position to bludgeon insurance companies over Katrina payouts. Scruggs is his brother in law, right? Perhaps that “family time” that Trent is pining for can happen in prison.

By: Mahlon

Mahlon — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:27:50 +0000

Wow! Read the indictment. The suppression hearing on the taped phone calls will go on for weeks – winner takes all. Then again, this is not a case where the informant was a strung out crack head. My guess is that the warrant affidavit was rather detailed. Poor Dickie!

By: The Bovina Bloviator

The Bovina Bloviator — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:36:19 +0000

[I]t didn't take long for the Hillary Clinton campaign to cancel the Scruggs-hosted fundraiser that was to have been headlined by husband Bill Clinton next month...

There is no honor among thieves.