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| Contact Info | Telephone: 662-843-6100
Cell Phone: 662-402-3133
Fax: 662-843-8153
http://www.griffithlaw.net
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| Law School | University of Mississippi School of Law (B.A., English, German, 1973; J.D., 1975) |
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| Admitted | 1975, Mississippi, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Memberships | Bolivar County, Federal and American (Chair, Standing Committee on Election Law 2010-2011; Member, Advisory Commission to Standing Comm. on Election Law 2009-2010; Sections of: Litigation, Government Liability Comm., Construction Litigation Comm.; Tort Trial and Insurance Practice, Insurance Coverage and Government Liability Comm.; State and Local Government Law, Member, House of Delegates, 2009—, Section Chair, 2007-2008, Election Law and Reapportionment Subcomm. Co-Chair 1998-2007; Int'l Law, Africa, China, Russia/Eurasia, EU, Caribbean & Latin America Comm.; Labor and Employment Law; Government & Public Sector Lawyers Division, Election Law Comm.; Construction Law Forum) Bar Assns; The Mississippi Bar (Member: Government Law Section, Chair, 1992-1993; Professional Responsibility Comm., 1993-1996; Code of Professional Responsibility Comm., 1986-1987); Mississippi Defense Lawyers Assn; Defense Research Institute (Member, Government Liability Committee, 1983—; Steering Committee, 2006—); Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit; National Assn of County Civil Attorneys (President, 1992-1993); Mississippi Assn of County Board Attorneys (President, 1989-1990); Int'l Municipal Lawyers Association (State Chair, 2003—; Int'l Steering Comm. Chair, 2007—; County and Special Municipal Districts Department Chair, 1999-2002; IMLA 2009 President's Award, Most Outstanding Associate; IMLA Distinguished Service Award, 2002); World Jurist Assn (National President for USA, 2006-2010); Int'l Society of Barristers, 2000—; Federalist Society of Mississippi (Member, Board of Advisors, 1994—). Mississippi Bar Foundation; IMLA Local Government Fellow; IMLA Int'l Steering Comm. Chair, 2008—: William C. Keady Chapter, American Inns of Court; Litigation Counsel of America 2008—; Council on Litigation Management 2008—. |
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| Languages | German |
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| Born | Cleveland, Mississippi, November 19, 1952 |
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| Biography | Phi Delta Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Lamar Order. Listed: Mid-South Super Lawyers, 2006-2010; Best Lawyers in America, Municipal Law, 2007-2010. Recipient, Distinguished Service Award, National Assn. of County Civil Attorneys, 1995. Editor/Author, America Votes! A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights (ABA 2008) and e-Supplement to America Votes! (ABA 2009). Author: "Effective, Timely, Appropriate and Enforceable Remedies," contained in International Election Principles: Democracy and the Rule of Law (ABA 2008); "Regulated Riparianism and Application of Prior Appropriation Principles to Permitting Decisions in Eastern States," contained in Water Law & Allocation (M. Baroni, Ed. 2011, ABA Section of State & Local Govt. Law), "Water Infrastructure, Allocation, Management & Conservation," in Greening of Local Government (P. Salkin & K. Hirokawa, Editors, 2011, ABA Section of State & Local Govt. Law), "Access to Public Records and Litigants' Right of Discovery," contained in Access to Government in the Computer Age (ABA 2007); Census 2000: Considerations and Strategies for State and Local Government (ABA 2000); Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, (ABA 2001); Handbook for County Board Attorneys in MS (CGT 2000 and 2004). Member, Editorial Board, Mississippi Law Journal, 1974-1975. Author: "Pretrial Discovery of an Insurer's Investigative File," 9 Voir Dire 10, No. 8 (1985); "Dare We Trust the Jury? Yes," 18 The Brief 6 (Fall 1988); "Proactive Defense Strategies in Voting Rights Litigation after Miller v. Johnson," 36 Mun. Law, 5 (Sept./Oct. 1995); "Defense Strategies in Voting Rights Litigation After Shaw and Miller," 28 Urb. Law. 715 (Fall 1996); "Implementing the Race-Predominant Standard for State and Local Government Redistricting Plans," 27 Stet. L. Rev. 835 (Winter 1998); "Multi-Racial Democracy: Not a Black and White Issue," 21 State and Local Law News, No. 2 (Winter 1998); "Colorblind Jurisprudence: The Demise of Racial Rorschachism and Separatism," 30 Urb. Law. 995 (Fall 1998); "The Significance of Bogan v. Scott-Harris for Local Governments and the Impact of Legislative Immunity," Mun. Law. 6 (September/October 1998); "Redistricting Litigation in the Next Millennium," 59 Cath. Univ. L. Rev. 1 (Fall 1999); "The Clean Water Act After Rapanos & Carabell: The Perfect Legal Storm," 47 Mun. Law, 6 (Nov./Dec. 2006); "Reinforcing the Formidable Arsenal: Restoration of Purposeful Discrimination as Basis for Denial of Section 5 Preclearance Under the VRARA of 2006," 29 UALR L. Rev. No. 4 (2007). Fellow: Fellow of American Bar Foundation; Fellow of Mississippi Bar Foundation; IMLA Local Government Fellow; Int'l Barristers Association Fellow. (Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy) |
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| Reported Cases | Lange v. City of Batesville, 2008 Miss. App. LEXIS 19 (Miss. App. 2008), prior appeal, 2002 Miss. App. LEXIS 486 (Ms. App. 2002); Lange v. City of Batesville, MS., 2005 WL 3502190 (5th Cir. 2005); Titan Indemnity Co. v. Pope, 2004 W.L. 1516520 (Miss. App. 2004); Titan Indemnity Co. v. Estes, 825 So. 2d 651 (Ms. 2002); Genesis Indemnity v. Bolivar County, 793 So.2d 683 (Ms. App. 2001); Titan Indemnity Co. v. City of Brandon, 27 F. Supp 2d 693 (S.D. Miss. 1997); Teague v. Attala County, Ms., 807 F. Supp. 392 (N.D. Miss., 1992) aff'd in pt, vacated in pt and remanded, 17 F.3d 796 (5th Cir., 1994) appeal after remand, 92 F.3d 283 (5th Cir., 1996) cert. denied, 118 S.Ct. 45 (1997); Cane v. Worcester County, Md., 35 F.3d 921, (4th Cir. 1994) cert. denied, 513 U.S. 1148, (1995); Better Living Services, Inc. v. Bolivar County and City of Cleveland, Miss., 587 So. 2d 914 (Miss. 1991); Lucas v. Bolivar County, Miss., 567 F .Supp. 433, 435 (N.D. Miss. 1983), later proceedings, Mem. Op. Feb. 14, 1984, C.A. No. DC 83-136 WK-O, aff'd, 756 F. 2d 1230 (5th Cir. 1985). |
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