Monday, March 25, 2013

Time to get ready to ruuuuumble

Wednesday morning, March 27, 9:30 AM at the Omni, oops, I meant the Hinds County Chancery Courthouse.  We are going to court against Hinds County and Motorola.

Hinds County sued Motorola several years ago for allegedly allowing Madison and Ridgeland to "bootleg" off of the county radio system. The suit was filed after an "audit" submitted by then-Brown Communications employees Nathan Hargrove and Stacy Stowers made the claim about the two cities. The Hinds County Board of Supervisors retained attorney Precious Martin on a standard contingency fee contract to pursue the complaint. Mr. Martin is the husband of then-board attorney Crystal Martin and son-in-law of the Senior Chancellor of Hinds County. The lawsuit settled and the case was dismissed. JJ filed a public records request for a copy of the settlement agreement. Motorola filed a motion in chancery court to seal the agreement. This correspondent filed a motion to intervene in May 2011. Hinds responded with a response in opposition to my motion. Indeed, Hinds fought my intervention while Motorola did not do so. It should be pointed out the public records laws mandate such cases should be placed on the first available date on the court schedule.

The case was assigned to Judge Dewayne Thomas, who refused to set a hearing date. All Hinds County Chancellors recused themselves and the Supreme Court assigned retired Rankin County Chancellor Thomas Zebert. Judge Zebert recused himself last year and the case was reassigned to retired Judge Larry Buffington. The issue is really simple: can settlement agreements in civil suits between government bodies and private companies be protected from the public records laws?

Stay tuned.

Posted by Kingfish at 9:34 AM

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here's hoping sunshine wins the day.

And shame on Judge Thomas.

March 25, 2013 at 9:57 AM
Anonymous said...

Thomas is a Donkeycrat first, second and foremost. The duties of his office take a back seat to his partisanship.

March 25, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Kingfish said...

He's done some other questionable things on other cases. See his handling of a certain will contest involving a prominent family right now. Sealed the entire case. I can't even see the docket or find out when there is a hearing, which is highly unusual, even when a case is sealed. Usually the docket itself is still available.

Thomas's bailiff likes to harass me when I attend a hearing in his court. I now get searched for any electronic devices. Last time I was there he jumped on me for reading a magazine. Mind you this was 20 minutes before court, no judge was in thee courtroom, but apparently I can't read something while we wait for court to start. The bailiff now singles me out in front of everyone. No one else in the courtroom gets this treatment.

March 25, 2013 at 10:41 AM
Anonymous said...

But some obnoxious attorneys (whose fathers were prominent politicians) get to take their cell phones in with them even though no one else is allowed to including other attorneys.

March 25, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Shadowfax Laughs Outloud said...

Why don't you just treat the bailiff like you do ME and others who ruffle your holy and special feathers? Oh, wait, the bailiff has in-person recourse on your ass! Karma has visited you Kingfish. Enjoy it.

March 25, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Anonymous said...

Thomas is afflicted with the same strain of megalomania as that of Lieutenant Robert Graham of the Jackson Police Department.

March 25, 2013 at 11:39 AM
Anonymous said...

KF,

Would your being harassed by some shit head baliff qualify as some civil rights violation?

Got to be illegal??????

March 25, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Anonymous said...

First the corrrect phrase to use is "shit head bailiff."

"Would your being harassed by some shit head baliff qualify as some civil rights violation?"

Objection! Assumes facts not yet in evidence. Need to lay the basis for the question by first putting on the record evidence that the baliff in question does in fact have a head. Then and only then proceed to what said head may or may not be made of.

We will get to civil rights violations in part two of my commnet.

March 25, 2013 at 2:34 PM
Anonymous said...

In the next phase, Kingface puts a finger on the bailiff's chest and says, "You must not know who I am!"

March 25, 2013 at 3:17 PM
Anonymous said...

How to figure out if the shit head baliff reads JJ: Go to the hearing, when they start giving KF problems just give them a Bronx Cheer. If they come after you, then you know they read JJ.

March 25, 2013 at 3:57 PM
Anonymous said...

Is the hearing open to the public KF?

March 25, 2013 at 4:21 PM
Kingfish said...

Actually 3:17, the court reporter already did that. When I posted transcripts of the Mike brown hearings, she sent me an invoice and said I stole. No lie.

March 26, 2013 at 7:07 AM
Wmatthewt said...

I've seen him get on to other people for reading a paper in the Courtroom, if that makes you feel any better...

March 26, 2013 at 10:37 AM

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