I recently started a Twitter account (@MS_Appeals) where I tweet short summaries of the opinions handed down by the Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesdays and by the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursdays. The response to that effort has been kind, and I have been encouraged to post these summaries on a blog as well. This blog will make the summaries available to more people and it gives me space to write more detailed summaries of cases that strike me as interesting and to expound on other items if so inclined.
My goal is to post roughly tweet-length summaries of the Tuesday and Thursday hand downs. The idea is to provide a snapshot of each opinion to help you decide if you should go read the opinion for yourself. I will provide links to the opinions so, with apologies to LeVar Burton, you don’t have to take my word for it. In addition to regular blogging of the hand downs, I plan to provide occasional commentary and other content pending inspiration and motivation.
I hope this blog will be helpful. I have enjoyed and benefited from many of the great, but now “retired” Mississippi law blogs (Mississippi Litigation Review, Jane’s Law Blog, Mississippi Appellate Law & Commentary, and The Better Chancery Court Practice Blog, to name a few that come immediately to mind). Brushing aside this probative evidence that I am a fool, rushing in where angels fear to tread, my sense is that I am stepping into space that is no longer occupied to provide a service that may be useful to the bench, the bar, and others.
A little bit about me: For the past ten years and counting I have been practicing law in Mississippi, handling liability matters and workers’ compensation claims from as early as the date of the incident through resolution or final appeal. I am admitted to the bar in Mississippi (all state and federal courts), North Carolina (all state and federal courts), and Tennessee (all state courts). I am also admitted to the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Circuits. I have been practicing at the Baxter Law Firm, PLLC since 2018. I graduated from Ole Miss Law in 2011 and before that I graduated from Wheaton College (IL) with a biology degree. I am a native of Brookhaven and my wife and I live in Madison with our three wonderful boys.
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