Seen in the Clarion-Ledger:
In court papers filed late Monday, defense lawyers argue that widespread media coverage of the case has unfairly made Scruggs a “poster-child for greed, attorney malfeasance and tort reform” and will prevent him from getting a fair trial in his hometown, Oxford, Miss.
Strangely, I don’t recall Scruggs being as concerned about insurers’ ability to get a fair trial in the post-Katrina lawsuits due to just how many judges and juries in that part of Mississippi were impacted by the storm.
Folo passed along an entertaining snippet of the motion to change venue:
The print media blitz has been supplemented by Mississippi-based web logs (blogs) that report, in excruciating detail, every event in the prosecution and defense of the Scruggs criminal case, the criminal contempt case against Scruggs in Alabama, the recently-dismissed State Farm case against Attorney General Hood and the various cases in which State Farm has sought Scrugg’s testimony. See www.yallpolitics.com; www.folo.us.
The stories at times border on the ridiculous. Articles and blog postings have detailed the Scruggs family’s annual Christmas party; the flight of the Scrugg’s private plan to Dallas for a maintenance visit; and the efforts of Joey Langston to sell his ski house at Telluride.
May I suggest that the venue be changed to, say, Hartford? I’m sure that the insurers in town would love to entertain Dickie. And I won’t bite much, I promise. 
(I missed the excruciating detail of the Christmas party? Dang!)
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1 Actuaries are talking about Folo | folo // 14 Feb 2008 at 3:53 pm
[...] the Actuary’s weblog post here, noting that the insurance companies there in Hartford, Conn. would be glad to host a fair trial [...]
2 NMC at Folo // 14 Feb 2008 at 3:54 pm
hello back at you from the folks at Folo