By John Sharp | jsharp@al.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on January 26, 2016 at 4:04 PM, updated January 26, 2016 at 9:25 PM The process for awarding $58 million of BP oil spill fines for a beachfront hotel and conference center at Gulf State Park was flawed and failed to consider alternative projects, an attorney with an environmental advocacy group argued [...]
Initiative 42 is a constitutional amendment to ensure adequate funding for public schools in Mississippi. The opponents claim that it is a "radical ploy to shift power from voters to judges." The opponents make this claim because the amendment makes it clear that the adequate funding requirement would be enforceable by the state courts. This claim is absolutely baffling. I [...]
Posted by Evelina Burnett More than 36,000 claims have been submitted by Mississippi businesses and individuals for economic losses from the BP oil spill. That’s about 12 percent of the total, and far lower than in Louisiana, Florida or Alabama. As MPB’s Evelina Burnett reports, many people who have filed claims say they weren’t fully compensated for what they [...]
By: Katy Reckdahl - This article appeared in the May 4, 2015 edition of The Nation BP agreed to a $7.8 billion settlement, but still hasn’t paid out most Gulf Coast businesses. In the summer of 2014, Skyland Seafood quietly shut down. In Mobile, Alabama, where the shop had been located for 17 years, Skyland’s demise caused a small, [...]
By: Rachael Zimlich February 24, 2015 Landfill operators and the city of New Orleans will pay $8 million to hundreds of property owners whose land became one of the region’s busiest landfill sites after Hurricane Katrina. The class action suit was filed in 2007 by landowners who purchased lots for a future development decades earlier. The development—situated on a former [...]
By PR Rocket on January 27, 2015 After years of litigation and negotiations, attorneys with Waltzer Wiygul & Garside today announced an $8,000,000 settlement of a class action lawsuit over ownership of property under the Gentilly Landfill in New Orleans East. Gretna, LA (PRWEB) January 27, 2015 After years of litigation and negotiations, attorneys with Waltzer Wiygul & Garside [...]
