The Fifth Circuit asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to clarify whether procedural rules a worker must comply with before suing under a state tort law also apply to whistleblower claims.
The deputy sheriff involved in a high-speed pursuit that critically injured a 13-year-old boy in early 2022 when a felon crashed through his bedroom said in court documents where the county settled a lawsuit for $475,000 that he called off the chase on Poplar Avenue due to weather conditions but stayed in the area looking for the vehicle, came upon the crash and was able to get the child medical aid.
TUPELO – Since the family of a Lee County school resource officer fatally injured on the job filed a worker’s compensation claim for benefits to cover the medical and funeral
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A man who lost two fingers as a child when they were caught in a bicycle chain can proceed with his lawsuit against a school district even though it was filed a decade later, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled, finding the district waived its statute-of-limitations argument by failing to raise it soon enough.