Mississippi

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CONSTITUTION

• Mississippi Constitution -- Through the Mississippi Secretary of State. Searchable.
• Mississippi Constitution -- Not searchable.
• Mississippi Bill of Rights -- Article III of the constitution.

• State Codes
  • Mississippi Code (unannotated) -- Users can search or browse the code at this site.
  • How a Bill Becomes a Law -- From the Mississippi Legislature.
  • Mississippi Legislative Bill Status and Text of Bills -- 1997 to present. Bills are in HTML, PDF, WordPerfect 5.2, and plain ASCII text formats.
  • Mississippi Codes: An Address by R.H. Thompson-- An address given delivered at the annual meeting of the Mississippi State Bar Association, Biloxi, Mississippi, May, 1926 on the early Mississippi Codes 1799-1917.
  • Summaries of the historical codes with title page images
  • Mississippi Legislature home page
• Muncipal Codes
  • Codes of Ordinances for Biloxi, Brandon, Ridgeland, Southaven, and Vicksburg.

• Mississippi Rules & Regulations
  This listing is incomplete-- only those agencies which post their regulations online are included.
• Mississippi State Attorney General -- Includes AG opinions (searchable, but not browsable) from 1979 to the present, information on consumer protection, and news.
• Office of the Governor
• Mississippi State Tax Commission
• Mississippi Legislature's Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review ("PEER") -- PEER analyzes state state agency programs and operations and issues performance and expenditure reviews. Reports are posted on the web site.
• The following sites provide links to other Mississippi agencies and commissions:
  • Mississippi State Government Home Pages
  • State of Mississippi Government Information -- Arranged alphabetically. Provided by University of Mississippi Libraries.
  • Agency Annual Reports
    This listing is incomplete-- only those agencies which post their annual reports online are included.
  • Department of Health documents

• Mississippi Supreme Court & Court of Appeals
  Official site of the Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals -- Contains a searchable database of decisions of both courts from 1996 to the present. This site also contains the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure, Mississippi Rules of Appellate Procedure, Mississippi Rules of Evidence, Circuit and Chancery court rules, and other court rules.
• Mississippi Supreme Court & Court of Appeals Live Broadcast

• Federal Courts in Mississippi
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District Of Mississippi. Includes opinions since August 1994 (not searchable), local rules, and forms.
  Alternate Site -- Maintained by the University of Mississippi Law Library. Contains opinions (searchable) August 1994 - September 2000.
  • Ayres Settlement Agreement
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Mississippi -- Includes opinions from Dec. 1999-present (not searchable), district map, forms, open position listing, VCIS & PACER system information and more.
  • U.S. District Court For The Southern District Of Mississippi -- Includes local rules and forms.
  • US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit Home Page -- Contains a searchable database of opinions from 1990 to the present.

• Chancery & Circuit Court Information
  • Chancery & Circuit Court Clerk web sites
  • Chancery Court Judge list
  • Chancery Court Clerk list
  • Circuit Court Judge list
  • Circuit Court Clerk list

• Mississippi State Bar Online -- Ethics Opinions -- Index | Search
• Mississippi Ethics Commission Advisory Opinions -- 1995 to Present | Outlines only 1987-1995
• Mississippi Rules of Professional Conduct
• Rules of Discipline
• Guidelines of Professional Conduct
• Standards of Litigation Conduct

• Clarion-Ledger
| Index to the Clarion-Ledger
• Hattiesburg American

• Mississippi Municipal League
• Mississippi's Official State Web Site
• Mississippi State Bar Online
• Connection to Your Mississippi Representatives in US Congress
• Civil Rights in Mississippi
• Mississippiana
• MSU Political Research Center
• Mississippi Statistical Resources
• The John Grisham Page
• Mississippi.Com