Eugster Law & Comment

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blamelesscharacters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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Columnist Carl Horowitz published an opinion piece on March 29, entitled “Dickie Scruggs: A Legal Career Up In Smoke.” I found it on Townhall.com, a website of so-called “Conservative” columnists and others.
Referring to the Jones v. Scruggs case Mr. Horowitz says this:
Dickie Scruggs wasn’t about to yield. In March 2007 he and four persons — [...]

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Perhaps the most poignant aspect of the Scruggs Matter is the treachery of Judge Henry Lackey.
It may well be to some that the end justifies the means but the truth is Judge Lackey deceived his friend Tim Balducci and brought him down, bringing him to utter ruin as a lawyer. As if this was not [...]

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“In war, truth is the first casualty.” Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC).
An essential “truth” of the Scruggs Matter has to do with whether Mississippi Circuit Judge Henry Lackey’s sought after payment from Tim Balducci was “a business transaction or series of transactions of both Layfayette County [Mississippi] and the Administrative Office of the Courts [...]

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There seems to be a climate of opinion which animates the comments one reads made in response to a statement of fact or opinion in this or that blog regarding the Scruggs Matter. The climate includes a whole lot of animus toward Dick Scruggs and Zach Scruggs. Not much is said about Sidney Backstrom. Tim [...]

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Pascal says this about imagination and truth:
82 Imagination. —It is that deceitful part in man, that mistress of error and falsity, the more deceptive that she is not always so; for she would be an infallible rule of truth, if she were an infallible rule of falsehood. But being most generally false, she gives no [...]

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On NPR this morning I heard a fluff piece at the end of thank you to Bill and Melinda Gates for their support of something or other. The piece went something like the Gates’ support each person’s rught to advance himself.
How nice I thought. How darn right nice. But then I remembered. Bill Gates has [...]

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An analogy for those who disagree with my statement of personal opinion:Every now and then I make a mistake while driving which upsets another driver and justifiably so. I usually realize my mistake and apologize for it, one way or another, by a signal of some kind to the driver I have wronged. [...]

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Today Judge Biggers received a guilty plea from Zach Scruggs for “misprision of a felony.”
After a statement by Mr. Scruggs in which he apologized and expressed his genuine remorse, Judge Biggers replied:
The legal profession you say you love so much, you will not be a part of forthe rest of your life.
This statement was, [...]

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The Mississippi Drainage Basin is full of water, so full it is at flood stage in hundreds of square miles of area. The floods will cause much damage. Perhaps use can be made of these waters and perhaps some of the flood surge could be abated if –
If there was an extensive system of large [...]

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