The Circuit Court of Madison County, Mississippi entered an order affirming the October 18, 2016 Amendments to the official zoning ordinance of the City of Ridgeland. On October 18, 2016, the City of Ridgeland amended its ordinance to, among other things, address a settlement agreement reached with HUD. The Plaintiff apartment complexes filed a bill of exceptions challenging the validity of the 2016 Amendments claiming that the amendments did not comply with a conciliation agreement reached between the City and HUD and the amendments were arbitrary and capricious. […]

Kelly D. Simpkins, representing the City of Clinton, Mississippi, obtained Summary Judgment. […]

This action was pending in Jefferson County, Alabama. The Plaintiff claimed that the insurer who had issued a lender placed policy had not paid benefits for all the losses incurred and such failure was accompanied by bad faith. Insurer moved for summary judgment on the grounds that the Plaintiff lacked standing to assert a claim because she was not the insured and her losses did not implicate the residual value benefit in the policy. […]

On March 29, 2018, Walter D. Willson, Randy L. Dean, and Kevin A. Rogers obtained a unanimous opinion from the Mississippi Supreme Court in Tommy Brooks Oil Co., v. Jerry Wilburn and Wilburn Oil Company, No. 2016-IA-01356-SCT, wherein the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed and remanded a summary judgment that had been erroneously entered by the circuit court. […]

On March 22, 2018, Kelly D. Simpkins and Kevin A. Rogers obtained a summary judgment in an ERISA lawsuit in which the plaintiff asserted that her disability benefits had been improperly terminated.  The defendant paid disability benefits for over ten years; however, as part of its continued evaluation, the defendant discovered that plaintiff’s description of […]