Missing posts

Posts between early March and late July of 2010 are for the moment missing-- when we moved from one host to another, the prior host arbitrarily witheld 5 months of posts and is demanding we both move back and pay them to get back our data. While I try to solve this, you can find these posts by searching Google and clicking the "cached" option.
I am Tom Freeland, a lawyer in Oxford, Mississippi. The picture in the header is my law office. I'm on Twitter as NMissC
I started (co)blogging as NMC in early 2008 on the Folo blog, (with coblogger Lotus); that blog went on hiatus in March, 2009. In 2005, I covered Fifth Circuit cases for the (now defunct) Appellate Law and Practice blog.

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Wednesday Morning Various (from a Jackson coffee shop)

Open Records vs. Secretly Petitioning The Government: There’s a referendum on the ballot in Washington State about gay marriage.  Groups fighting the referendum and/or interested in open records issues sought the names of the people who signed the petition to place the issue on the ballot.  One side argued that these lists were usually not public [...]

Saturday Afternoon Various

Here’s the website for Bill Luckett’s Progress Mississippi PAC, which answers a question Ben asked in comments.  Nice logo.
105 year old guitarist Huey Long (no, not that one) died in Houston.  He played with everyone from Fletcher Henderson to the Ink Spots to Dizie Gillespie to Earl Hines.  Here’s his NY Times obit.
The Commercial Appeal the [...]

Bill Luckett announces formation of a PAC for a governor run

Bill Luckett, a lawyer in Clarksdale and business partner with Morgan Freeman, has formed a a political action committee called Progress for Mississippi as part of working up to a run for governor as a Democrat year after next.  The AP interviewed him about the decision to set up the PAC.

Luckett said his upbringing in one [...]