The Mississippi Supreme Court handed down to opinions today. One is an appeal of an MTCA personal injury award and the other stems from a messy domestic relations matter involving a criminal contempt issue.
City of Jackson v. Lawson, 2024-CA-01174-SCT (Civil – Personal Injury)
Affirming a personal injury award under the MTCA, holding that the City was not immune where it had prior knowledge of a pothole that caused the injury.
(6-1: Coleman for the Court; Branning dissented without writing)
Jones v. Jones, 2024-CA-00690-SCT consolidated with 2024-CA-01307-SCT (Civil – Domestic Relations)
Vacating the chancellor’s order imposing sanctions for criminal contempt and remanding the case for the chancellor to recuse from contempt proceedings and ordering the return of a $1,500 sanction; affirming the chancellor’s order requiring one party to reimburse the other party for medical debt of her child by another man; declining to require the chancellor to recuse from future cases involving one party of its attorneys; and declining to refer the chancellor to the judicial performance commission.
(5-1: Randolph for the Court; Griffis concurred in part and dissented in part, joined in part by Coleman and Ishee)
Other Orders
- Cameron v. Miller, 2023-CT-01388-SCT (denying cert)
- Cooper v. State, 2024-CT-00592-SCT (denying cert)
- Mayfield v. State, 2024-KA-00822-SCT (denying rehearing)
- Bennett v. State, 2025-DR-01074-SCT (granting motion to seal exhibits)
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