Scruggs Nation, April 5: the fall of the Scruggs Katrina Empire

Regarding yesterday's news of the disqualification from Katrina cases of the Katrina Litigation Group, the entity derived from the former Scruggs Katrina Group and containing three of the original five firms, what will happen now? It's hard to overstate how big a development in Katrina litigation this is. Remember as we discuss this ruling that, in addition to disqualifying the remaining KLG firms from Katrina litigation in the Southern District of Mississippi, he barred the Rigsby sisters as witnesses and also barred the use of the documents taken from State Farm. A huge development. One thing we should expect is a motion in the False Claims Act case, Ex rel. Rigsby, which is also in the Southern District. That motion, I would expect, would be to dismiss the case entirely, beca