Grand jury seeks hard drive, firm suspects Scruggs of violating judge's order and tipping off U.S. Attorney

Just when you think there can't possibly be any other angles to Katrina litigation, another one sticks its head up like in some kind of Whack-A-Mole game, and Dickie Scruggs has a way of being involved. Check out this story by Mike Kunzelman of the AP. It says Forensic Analysis and Engineering -- and you may remember that firm as being involved in adjusting Katrina damage and also being the locus of those dumb e-mails that keep getting trotted out like they're all that, but they ain't, kind of like some middle-aged guy strutting around in a Speedo -- is seeking to block a grand jury subpoena of the hard drive of one of its employees. The grand jury, convened by a U.S. Attorney, seems to be investigating whether insurers committed improprieties in paying wind claims off with federal flo