Legal fees top $810,000 in airport takeover case Source: WLBT By Anthony Warren | April 1, 2021 at 2:02 PM CDT - Updated April 1 at 2:46 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Five years and 441 filings later, the city of Jackson and the state have racked up more than $810,000 in legal fees associated with the airport takeover case.
To date, the state’s legal fees have topped $171,000, while the city has amassed nearly $640,000, or three times the amount spent by the state.
The case has gone on so long, in fact, that U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves voiced his frustration in a March 15 order.
“When we last met, this court expressed its hope that the parties and respondents would return to the Fifth Circuit with a stipulated record,” he said. “Instead, we have three new motions.”
The agency that conducts inspections of Florida jails suspended on-site inspections in July, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Jails statewide were asked instead to send a memo to the committee affirming their own continued compliance with the standards.
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A new Senate bill could change the formation of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s nine-member board of trustees, transforming it from a self-appointed board to a politician-appointed one.
Senate Bill 2727 would allow the governor and lieutenant governor to alternate in appointing new MDAH trustees every six years, which would then be approved of or rejected by the Senate. Currently, members are nominated by the MDAH Board of Trustees itself and confirmed by the Senate.
The bill has already passed through the Senate at a 34-14 vote and is currently on its way to the House of Representatives.