Washington Legal Foundation calls for full investigation of Dickie Scruggs

A press release from the Washington Legal Foundation released in early July called on the federal courts and the U.S. Department of Justice to fully investigate allegations of serious ethical improprieties lodged against Mr. Scruggs.

Coincidentally, U.S. District Judge William M. Acker ordered on the day before our motion that Mr. Scruggs and his law firm be prosecuted for criminal contempt for willfully violating the court's Dec. 8, 2006 preliminary injunction in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute. This development only further supports a motion State Farm® lawyers filed in June to disqualify Mr. Scruggs, his law firm, the Scruggs Katrina Group and affiliate firms from McIntosh v. State Farm.

“Mr. Scruggs blatantly, seriously and repeatedly departed from the standard of conduct that would be followed by a lawyer of ordinary care and prudence,” said Professor Charles W. Wolfram, a nationally-recognized expert in the field of legal ethics, a former acting dean of Cornell Law School and author of Modern Legal Ethics, who was quoted in State Farm’s motion.