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   State Courts - Mississippi - February 2 - February 3, 2006

  
Equifirst Corp. v. Jackson, NO. 2005-CA-00621-SCT, SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI, February 2, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Trial court erred in denying mortgage company's motion to compel arbitration where transaction involved interstate commerce and the borrowers signed the arbitration agreement; the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C.S. § 1 et seq., applied. There was no evidence that borrowers did not knowingly waive right to jury trial when they signed agreement.

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Jones v. State, NO. 2004-KA-01412-SCT, SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI, February 2, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Evidence was sufficient to sustain a kidnapping conviction, Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-53, where according to the victim's testimony, she was leaving her mother's house when she was accosted by defendant who grabbed her, placed a gun to her head, and forced her into a van against her will by grabbing her around the neck.

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Price v. Purdue Pharma Co., NO. 2003-CA-02101-SCT consolidated with NO. 2004-CA-01929-SCT, SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI, February 2, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Summary judgment was properly granted in favor of companies and physicians on patient's claims that he sustained injuries from ingesting drug where patient could not sue for addiction to controlled substance which he obtained through his own fraud, deception, and subterfuge; cause of action resulted from immoral or illegal act committed by patient.

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Ill. Cent. R.R. Co. v. Easterwood, No. 2005-M-02339-SCT, SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI, February 3, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Where the individuals' amended complaints provided the railroad with sufficient notice of each of their claims, including the place, period of time, and instrumentality of alleged injury, the railroad's petition for interlocutory appeal and request for a stay were denied.

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