Hand down list Roger Lee Jackson v. State of Mississippi – limitations on cross-examination – Jackson and Emmanuel Jones were driving around Jackson looking to buy some drugs (apparently drugs are harder to find now that they aren’t served at the State Street Krystal). They encountered Jerry Lewis and two others driving around in Lewis’…
At 10:00 the COA will hear the case of In the Matter of the Estate of John M. Kaye, Deceased, John Morgan Kaye v. Patricia Kaye which is a challenge to an inter vivos gift. John M. Kaye had three children and was married to his third wife when he died in his 90s. One child…
Hand down list Ali M. Almasri v. Cindy Hyde-Smith, Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce and Dr. Ashli Brown, State Chemist – timeliness of notice of appeal – Ali Almasri’s gas station was enjoined from selling ethanol blended gasoline after a state petroleum inspector performed a routine test on Almasri’s ethanol-blended tank and it…
Hand down list Derrick Ramone Hall – sufficiency of the evidence/murder – Hall was convicted of the May 6, 2015 murder of Kathryn Peacock whose body was found in her home with more than 30 stab wounds. Police found blood splattered clothing at the scene along with other evidence. That same day, Hall’s mother approached…
Hand down list Chester L. Gossett IV v. Tiffany Smith Gossett – adultery – Chester Gossett filed a complaint for divorce from his wife, Tiffany Gossett, on the grounds of adultery and cruel and inhuman treatment. Tiffany answered and filed a counterclaim for divorce on the same grounds. The chancellor dismissed both Chester’s complaint and Tiffany’s counterclaim finding…
There’s another Medicaid reimbursement case being argued at the Miss.S.Ct. at 1:30. It’s Memorial Hospital at Gulfport and Singing River vs the Division of Medicaid. Medicaid frames the issues thusly: 1.Was the Chancery Court correct in finding that DOM’s application of its FY 2014 model paying DSH and UPL supplemental payments to hospitals was neither arbitrary…
Central Insurers of Grenada, Inc. v. William Greenwood d/b/a Antique Wood Company of Mississippi – service of process on domestic insurance company- William Greenwood, the owner of Antique Wood of Mississippi, filed suit against Central and three other defendants for breach of contract, etc., based on Central’s failure to provide coverage under a commercial…
At 10:00 the COA will hear the case of John Girani v. John Taylor Lovern. The parties are next door neighbors in a Florence subdivision. Previous owners of the properties had built a boat ramp between the properties to a lake. Everyone paid a share of the costs to build the boat ramp retaining walls in…
John H. Magee v. State of Mississippi – evidence in drug sale of money that would indicate other drug sales – Magee was convicted of the illegal transfer of a controlled substance. Gulfport police had information that Magee was involved in drugs. They set up a controlled buy and an undercover officer purchased three oxymorphone and…
Hand down list Mississippi Department of Public Safety and Albert Santa Cruz, in his Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety v. Stacy Smith, Greg Nester, and Kristopher Wingert – civil service – Smith, Nester and Wingert were permanent state civil-service employees working at the Crime Lab. In 2005 MDPS told them they…
Today (5/24/28)the Mississippi Supreme Court handed down an important decision in Wilcher v. Lincoln County Board of Supervisors and the City of Brookhaven. Wilcher hit a hole in the roadway on a bridge that was being repaired by the City and County. There were no warning signs. The trial court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss holding…
At 10:00 the COA will hear the case of Julie Dauenhauer v. Steven Dauenhauer. Steven and Julie married twice. The first time was for 20 years and they had two sons. Two years after their 2001 divorce, they remarried. During the second marriage, she became a nurse practitioner while Steven, because of his religious beliefs,…
