Dickie Scruggs asks that criminal contempt charges be dropped

I've had requests for an update on United States of America v. Richard F. Scruggs -- the criminal contempt case against attorney Dickie Scruggs. The latest news is that last week Scruggs filed his response to an order requiring him to show cause why he should not be held in criminal contempt. More on this after this brief reminder of what we are talking about here. (Remember, the reason for the charges is that Scruggs allegedly violated an injunction by federal Judge William Acker requiring him to turn over documents to lawyers for E.A. Renfroe, a State Farm contractor. The documents were claims files taken from Renfroe by two employees, the so-called "whistleblower" Rigsby sisters, who while working for Renfroe secretly copied thousands of pages and gave them to Scrugg