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If you’re Dickie who do you leak to . . . AP, ABC, CBS, New York Times? Yep.

More VERY interesting news in the McIntosh case today as the lawyers for State Farm are now finding new ways to further pulverize the corpse of Dickie Scruggs' credibility.

In their Memorandum in the McIntosh case today, State Farm goes before the court to oppose keeping Dickie and Zach Scruggs' recent depositions under seal. They seem to have been pleading the fifth lately. Not only do they mock the Scruggs' asking for the seal, but they provide evidence that Dickie himself violated court orders in 2006 by forwarding sealed documents to ABC, CBS, AP and the NY Times.

Nor is it without a high degree of irony that the Scruggses, who engaged in a course of conduct
of disseminating sealed pleadings and evidentiary disclosures in the Rigsbys’ qui tam litigation to the
press up to a year before the statutory seal was lifted by an order of this Court, see, e.g., Exs. F to I,2 are
asking this Court to seal documents that are unsealed and would presumptively be in the public domain
once State Farm attached them as exhibits to its motions to compel the Scruggses (which are awaiting
filing, see Doc. 1233). Stated otherwise, when the Scruggses were confronted with documents that were
subject to a statutory seal that could not be lifted except by this Court’s order, they evaded the seal;
when they are confronted with documents that would presumptively be in the public domain (through
the filing of State Farm’s motions to compel the Scruggses, see Doc. 1233), they seek this Court’s order
to seal them. And they do so without making an adequate showing.

Specifically, they provide the names/emails of their old reliable friends in the media.

Michael Kunzelman of the AP

Jeff Rhee, producer at ABC

Michael Rey, production associate at CBS

and, of course, Joseph Treaster of the New York Times

And who said there was a liberal media bias?

No word as of yet on whether CBS, ABC, AP or the New York Times will be reporting this particular development in the Scruggs Nation.

Posted July 29, 2008 - 12:12 pm

4 Comments:

Folks, I am kind of at a loss for how to draw attention to this foolishness. Where do you start? This is amazing stuff.

Posted by Alan on 07-29-2008 at 01:38 PM [link]

What’s good for the gander, isn’t quite as good for the goose?

Posted by JDBerry on 07-29-2008 at 01:58 PM [link]

I find Scruggs testimony is rather humerous in the link above. I am rather surprised that he didn’t plead the 5th when they asked him his name as I would think answering that is more incriminating then answering any of the other questions asked of him. That man is pathetic. I just wonder what all of his ex “partners” in the SKG think about him, and how much money he has cost them with all the crap he has pulled. Now he is trying to put them on the hook for more money on the Rigsby defense costs.

Posted by Beau on 07-29-2008 at 02:23 PM [link]

Can you imagine where we’d be if George Dale had caved in to Dickie’s plan to make State Farm put up $500 million for DICKIE to handle Katrina claims? (P.L. Blake Insurance Adjuster?) Scruggs’ three pronged attack (legal, media & political) might have worked. Jim Hood certainly cooperated with Scruggs. Anita Lee bought in along with ABC, CBS and others. George Dale and Judge Lackey were about all that stood between Scruggs and the collapse of the Mississippi insurance market. Let’s hope that our new Insurance Commissioner and members of the Bar can hang onto their integrity/sanity when the next hurricane comes. It was all about greed. Scruggs hurt the people on the Coast.

Posted by deltafox on 07-30-2008 at 07:07 AM [link]

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