JURIST - Mississippi

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Monday extended an injunction blocking Mississippi from revoking the license of the state's only abortion clinic. In seeking to close down the clinic, Mississippi is attempting to enforce House Bill 1390, a 2012 state law....... [more]

On March 26, 1804, the US Congress passed an act containing a provision that offered Native Americans the option of relocating to lands west of the Mississippi River. Section 15 of "An Act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof" allowed US Preside....... [more]

On November 8, 2011, Mississippi voters passed the Mississippi Identification Petition by a referendum vote. The bill required voters to show government-issued identification in order to vote. The law states that those who do not have ID can be issued one for free; however, required documents may in....... [more]

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Wednesday joined a federal lawsuit challenging a policy directive to defer the deportation of young illegal immigrants. The claim, filed by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on behalf of 10 agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against US....... [more]

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced Tuesday that the state's voter identification law will not take effect before the November 6 election. The new legislation, which would require voters to show photo ID to vote in any election in the state, must be approved by the US Department of Just....... [more]

On August 26, 2005, DNA evidence confirmed that the remains buried in a Chicago grave were in fact those of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman. The two men charged with Till's murder were acquitted by an a....... [more]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday heard arguments in the challenge brought by a Mississippi church against a municipal ordinance that bans churches from the city's town square. The Opulent Life Church, a Southern Baptist congregation of 18 members, sought a a preliminary in....... [more]

The US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday ordered that the state's new abortion law could take effect, but ordered that the state not prosecute the plaintiff, Jackson Women's Health Organization (JWHO), for continued operation of the clinic while it is in the process....... [more]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Wednesday extended his prior injunction blocking a controversial Mississippi abortion law that was scheduled to go into effect July 1. The judge issued the initial temporary injunction earlier this month. The judge plans t....... [more]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Sunday issued a temporary injunction blocking a controversial Mississippi abortion law that was scheduled to go into effect July 1. The new law requires that all physicians performing abortions at a clinic be a licensed OB....... [more]

An abortion clinic in Mississippi on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi challenging a new abortion regulation that is scheduled to go into effect on July 1. The new law requires that all physicians performing abortions at a clinic to be a lice....... [more]