The Northern Review

Some of Judge Henry Lackey’s testimony or abridgements or paraphrases of the testimony can be found at Folo (I did not know the kind of monster we were dealing with . . .). Here is an interesting chunk. Cal Mayo is doing the questioning (but not very well it should be added, but maybe not [...]

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The real story about the Scruggs Matter is hidden from us. We can only speculate. We can, however, keep our speculation in check if we understand history and a bit of human nature.
What the heck am I talking about? The history of what I might refer to or think of as a “set piece of [...]

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The recent events in Jones v. Scruggs (Katrina Group remainder) are most interesting. Judicial actions have taken place in Jones and other civil cases in the area involving Dick Scruggs which foretell or should foretell all sorts of interesting developments. I sure hope someone with a clever mind and a mind for digging [...]

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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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