![]() ![]() ![]() The mastermind of that system was Richard “Dickie” Scruggs. It was a self-sustaining system – widely bragged about by plaintiff lawyers and lamented by defense teams. Lawyers and their clients, seemingly regardless of the merits of their legal claims, got rich in the bargain. Judges were propped up by political contributions from a select group of tort barons. The system was like a slot machine for plaintiff’s lawyers where corporate defendants were thrown into the system and subjected to fundamental unfairness in jurisdictions where plaintiffs decidedly had the upper hand. For the better part of two decades, Mississippi’s judicial system lacked balance.
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