A corporation's worst nightmare, famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has taken on asbestos companies, Big Tobacco and scads of insurance companies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But he may have finally met his match in the controversial and outspoken U.S. District Judge William M. Acker Jr., who has held Scruggs in criminal contempt for failing to abide by a court order to return allegedly purloined documents he received from two former employees of a State Farm contractor.
November 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A corporation’s worst nightmare, famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has unflinchingly taken on asbestos companies, Big Tobacco and scads of insurance companies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
But the 61-year-old Mississippi lawyer may have finally met his match in a controversial and outspoken Alabama federal judge.
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