State Farm attorney mistakenly sends query about having Hood held in contempt to reporters, Hood's press spokesper

Some of Jim Hood's proneness to gaffes must have rubbed off on Sheila Birnbaum of Skadden, Arps, a lead counsel for State Farm, when she was down in Mississippi to hear Hood testify February 6. Earlier today, Birnbaum accidentally replied to all the people on the distribution list for an e-mail Hood's press spokeswoman sent out this morning to a number of people, including reporters. Birnbaum thought she was responding to other State Farm lawyers.I wrote a post earlier today about the e-mail from Hood's office, in which Hood said there actually was no settlement of State Farm's lawsuit, and that the judge dismissed the case because State Farm's allegations were false. Read the post, and you'll see the language of the judge's order is quite clear and so obviously contradicts what H