Comments on the Latest Developments in Mississippi Civil Litigation
On Friday a Hinds County Circuit Court jury returned a $2.2 million verdict in Moton v. Leguire and Climate King, LLC.
Facts:
Plaintiff was traveling on I-55 south on August 3, 2016 when the pickup truck she borrowed from her brother to drive to work experienced mechanical difficulties. It was later determined the fuel…
On Friday a Hinds County jury returned a defense verdict in Brown v. Waffle House, Inc.
Disclaimer: Personally, I think Waffle Houses are awesome. They could open one on the moon and it would always be at least half full.
Here is the Pre-Trial Order.
The plaintiff was shot in the knee in…
On Thursday a Hinds County jury rendered a $1 million verdict in Clark v. Arlington Properties, Inc.
The case involved a car-jacking of a woman on May 23, 2013 at the Park at Moss Creek Apartments in northeast Jackson off Ridgewood Road. It was a gated property. The gate was supposed to be closed 24/7.…
Last Wednesday a Hattiesburg federal court jury rendered a defense verdict in Green v. Logan’s Roadhouse. Here is the complaint.
The plaintiff alleged that he was beaten up in a Logan’s Roadhouse and the defendant did not intervene to stop the beating.
Here is the jury’s verdict. The jury found that Logan’s…
On November 19, 2013 a federal court jury in Jackson returned a defense verdict for Ford Motor Co. in a products liability case filed by a Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper.
The trooper was injured when his state-issued 2008 Ford Crown Victoria left the roadway and hit a tree at approximately fifty miles-per-hour. The trooper was…
On Thursday the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed and rendered a $2.5 million jury verdict against Kroger in 2009 based on the 2007 beating of a customer in a purse snatching incident. Here is the Court’s opinion in Knox v. Kroger.
I wrote on the verdict in 2009 here and here.
Justice Dickinson wrote…
The 2007 Supreme Court Decision:
In June 2003, Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Lamar Pickard granted Sherwin-Williams summary judgment in a lead paint case (Pollard v. Sherwin-Williams). The Mississippi Court of Appeals affirmed. But on February 15, 2007, the Miss. Supreme Court reversed and remanded the case for trial in a 5–4 decision.
On Thursday a unanimous Mississippi Supreme Court reversed and remanded a 2009 Rankin County defense verdict based on the trial court’s refusal to allow attorneys representing different wrongful death beneficiaries to separately question witnesses during trial. Here is the Court’s opinion in Dooley v. Byrd.
Facts:
The case involved the death of two-year-old Jonathan Dooley, who was killed…
Friday evening a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson Division, returned an $875,000 verdict for Claire Harrison in her discrimination lawsuit against LMA North America, Inc.
I’m having trouble posting the Complaint.
The plaintiff alleged that the company discriminated against women and…
A Hinds County Circuit Court jury returned a $3.6 million verdict Friday in a premises liability case. Judge Winston Kidd was the trial judge.
The Plaintiffs were Benny Ohazurike, Esther Ohazurike, and Darlington Ohazurike (6 year old son). Plaintiff’s counsel were Ashley Ogden and former Chief Justice Jim Smith.
The Defendants were Parham Pointe South …