Pickering v. Langston Law Firm, No. 251-07-1258 (Chancery Ct., Hinds Cty, Miss., Feb. 11, 2010)
The state auditor’s office sued the state attorney general’s office over the payment of outside counsel from a $107 million settlement. The Auditor’s office believed that the attorney general did not have the right to allocate the money (won by the state) to outside, private counsel.