Scruggs former colleagues say he's out; Scruggs says he's in

Dickie Scruggs' list of adversaries, including insurance companies generally and two sets of federal prosecutors, just got a little longer and now includes his ex-partners in the former Scruggs Katrina Group. You may remember that in a post from this morning I mentioned that the other firms in the group were kicking the Scruggs Law Firm out due to fear of being tarnished with the now unsavory Scruggs brand name. Accordingly, Don Barrett, of the Barrett Law Office, sent a letter today to the courts in which the group's Katrina cases were located, saying "In light of what happened in Oxford, the Scruggs Law Firm will be withdrawing from all Katrina-related litigation." The letter also said what used to be the Scruggs Katrina Group would re-form, sans the Scruggs, to