The Disqualification Wars continue. First, after an initially unsuccessful effort by State Farm late last year to disqualify Dickie Scruggs from Katrina litigation on ethics grounds, Scruggs in essence disqualified himself on, uh, ethics grounds. Then State Farm -- with new evidence gained in depositions including further depositions of the "whistleblower" Rigsby sisters, they of the sham consulting agreements featuring no-show or low-show $150,000 jobs from Scruggs, they of the 15 minutes of fame and 30 years of infamy -- successfully moved to disqualify the Scruggs(less) Katrina Group, later known as the Katrina(less) Litigation Group. Then, of course, we all had a great time when the Trailer Lawyers hit the stage of the Katrina Follies, but regrettably they t
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