Hood ex rel. Mississippi v. AstraZeneca Pharms., LP, 744 F. Supp. 2d 590 (N.D. Miss. 2010)
In a Mississippi case in which the attorney general sued a pharmaceutical manufacturer for alleged false statements, the court stated, “the Attorney General is a constitutional officer possessed of all the power and authority inherited from the common law as well as that specifically conferred upon him by statute. This includes the right to institute,…