I saw this story on my PDA yesterday but didn't link to it because it was only a few paragraphs of a "breaking" story and I couldn't tell what was going on, which makes commenting difficult. I figured there would be a more complete story later, and I was right.This story, by Steve Korris of Legal Newsline, talks about a ruling by Judge Coleman, the new judge in the fee dispute case that led to the alleged plot to bribe Judge Lackey, Jones, Funderburg v. Scruggs. Judge Coleman ruled yesterday that he has the authority to default Scruggs and issue a judgment against him if a later evidentiary hearing shows he tried to bribe Lackey. What's more, the ruling says that the other defendants, the other member firms of the former Scruggs Katrina Group (now known as &qu
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