Scruggs Weekend Update

The deposition of Dickie Scruggs in State Farm v. Hood will begin Monday at 8:00 AM; State Farm files a transcript of Friday’s hearing (Y’all Politics). The hearing on State Farm’s TRO against Mississippi AG Jim Hood will be held February 6 before US District Judge David Bramlette in the Southern District of Mississippi, where the case is filed.

Kerri Rigsby’s deposition in McIntosh v. State Farm is covered by WLBT in Jackson’s investigative team (video and text).

Not even with a ten foot pole: USA Dunn Lampton (Southern District of Mississippi) on Thursday informed US Magistrate Judge Robert Walker that the government will not intervene at present in the Ex rel. Rigsby “whistleblower” lawsuit filed by Scruggs (AP/CNNMoney, Rossmiller).

In the US v. Scruggs case in the Northern District of Alabama, Scruggs is fighting a contempt charge for defying a December 2006 court order by US District Judge William Acker in Renfroe v. Rigsby to return the files taken by the Rigsby sisters. On Friday prosecutors responded to Scruggs’ “motion to quash disguised as a motion to strike” a request for subpoenas (2/1 US Response) , while Scruggs’ attorneys requested an evidentiary hearing on an alleged “defect in instituting the prosecution” (Legal Newsline).

Judge Bobby DeLaughter will appear before a federal grand jury in Jackson this week (Clarion-Ledger).