Hood ex rel. Mississippi v. Microsoft, No. C2004-1542 (Chancery Ct. Hinds Cty., Miss., April 28, 2010)
The state auditor challenged the award of attorneys’ fees, on the grounds that such an award must come “out of the attorney general’s contingent fund, or out of any other funds appropriated to the attorney general’s office.” The court distinguished between appropriated funds and those from the “attorney general’s contingent fund,” which is not defined…