Mississippi Litigation Lawyer & Attorney : Bradley Arant Law Firm : Serving Jackson, Gulfport, Biloxi, Tupelo, Hinds County, 5th Circuit

In two opinions issued on November 30th, the Mississippi Supreme Court handed down the most recent installments in its longstanding campaign to clarify the rules governing joinder of plaintiffs in mass tort cases. What first began as an overhaul of joinder jurisprudence in Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc. v. Armond, 866 So.2d 1092 (Miss. 2004) has since become a series of attempts to emphasize the decision’s meaning and reach. In Albert v. Allied Glove Corp., (No. 2005-CA-01022-SCT) and Coleman v. A-Bex Corporation (No. 2005-CA-01022-SCT) the Court considered two appeals raising both the retroactive application of its changes to Miss. R. Civ. P. 20 and the forum non conveniens doctrine.

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The Supreme Court of the United States has just changed the landscape in retaliation cases and every employer needs to take note. As everyone with more than 15 employees knows, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in hiring, firing, compensation, or other terms, conditions or privileges of employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Title VII also provides that an employer may not discriminate against an employee because he “opposed any practice made unlawful” by Title VII. Retaliation cases are dangerous because juries are made up of employees – all of whom believe that if you file a complaint at work your employer will get back at you.

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