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Air Scruggs cannot take to air to carry Scruggs' lawyers

posted 232 weeks ago on Insurance Coverage Blog

U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Allan Alexander has clipped Dickie Scruggs' wings again -- Scruggs' private plane has been denied permission to take to the air for the purpose of hauling Scruggs' lawyers to and from San Francisco to defend him against criminal charges in Mississippi and Alabama. This despite the fact the government did not oppose Scruggs' motion of Friday for an exception to the current limitations on flights for emergency and charitable purposes only. Click here to read Judge Alexander's order. Judge Alexander said as follows:"Commercial air travel to and from Mississippi, California, and Alabama is readily available. For example, Northwest Airlines has over twenty flights from San Francisco to Memphis, Tennessee. Most of these flights average less than $300.0
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