Supreme Court: City violated Open Meetings Act
The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled in favor of The Commercial Dispatch in an Open Meetings Act case against the city of Columbus.
Court ruling favors prayer at council meeting
A narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld decidedly Christian prayers at the start of local council meetings on Monday, declaring them in line with long national traditions though the country has grown more religiously diverse.
Judge blocks part of Miss. campaign finance law
JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood says he might appeal a federal judge’s ruling that part of Mississippi’s campaign finance law creates an unconstitutional burden
Appeals court tosses out landmark Katrina ruling
A federal appeals court reversed itself Monday and threw out a judge’s landmark ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers was liable for billions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina flood damage that property owners blame on the corps’ maintenance of a New Orleans shipping channel.
Two from Lowndes County may be re-sentenced
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new juvenile sentencing ruling could retroactively impact only two Lowndes County men already serving sentences of life without parole.