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Scruggs contempt roundup

posted 62 weeks ago on Insurance Coverage Blog

Judge Acker's appointment of special prosecutors in the Dickie Scruggs criminal contempt matter has been generating the following buzz:Jonathan Adler at Volokh. The real fun is in the comments, make sure to read them. One commenter calls it a "minor . . . infraction." Minor? For a lawyer, it's never a minor thing to willfully disobey a judge's order, if that is what Scruggs did. The InsiderExclusive TV show "is currently investigating how the U.S. attorney in Alabama [Alice Martin] earlier this week declined a federal judge’s request to prosecute Dickie Scruggs and his Mississippi law firm for criminal contempt in a case relating to Hurricane Katrina insurance claims." I don't know of this show but I'd certainly be interested in the results o

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