Source: https://janeslawblog.com/2015/05/05/decisions-coa-april-5-2015/
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 08:08:32+00:00

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Billy McKissack v. Terri McKissack – date of valuation of property in divorce – This case was reversed once before when the court held that the chancellor erred in classifying a $500,000 cd was marital property. McKissack v. McKissack, 45 So. 3d 716, 722 (Miss. Ct. App. 2010). On remand, the court recalculated distribution and alimony based on this ruling and awarded Terri $250,000 in lump sum alimony. Billy appeals arguing, for one thing, that the court should take into account losses he suffered after the first ruling. The COA affirms holding that the chancellor did not err when he found that because he had already valued the property as of the divorce hearing date when making his findings, “any accumulation of additional assets or the appreciation of awarded assets should be classified as separate property[.]”. The date of valuation is discretionary with the court.
Lakinta v. State – double jeopardy – Goldman was convicted of two counts of armed robbery, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon arising out of the robbery of a Family Dollar in Duck Hill. He ended up with a sentence of 70 years. On appeal his attorney filed a Lindsey brief. . Goldman filed a supplemental pro se brief arguing that he was denied effective assistance of counsel when counsel failed to request an impeachment instruction in support of Goldman’s defense; the State failed to prove the basis for a habitual-offender sentence enhancement; and double jeopardy. The Court finds that Goldman did get an impeachment instruction, the state proved his habitual status, and the three counts of armed robbery and two of kidnapping was not double jeopardy since each count pertained to a different victim.
Cindy Walls v. Franklin Corp. – bad faith refusal to pay workers comp – In Walls v. FranklinCorp, , 797 So. 2d 973, 977 (Miss. 2001) the Mississippi Supreme Court held that Cindy Walls “could not maintain a bad faith action for refusal to pay for disputed medical services and supplies absent the [Mississippi Workers’ Compensation] Commission’s prior determination that those services and supplies were reasonable and necessary.” The trial court interpreted this to mean that the lawsuit filed after Walls she obtained the required determination by the Commission was limited to only those actions the employer and carrier took after Walls had exhausted her administrative remedies in April 2002. The COA disagrees “[t]herefore, it was error to exclude all evidence of the employer’s and insurance carrier’s actions before April 2002.” This ruling has no impact on the ruling vis-a-vis the employer but it does require reversal of the trial court’s dismissal of the insurer.
Unfortunately for Transcript, under these circumstances, we find it did not. Transcript cannot avoid the arbitration clause, even though it has only directed the arbitrable claims against BriovaRX, and not Catamaran. This is because the general rule that a non-signatory may not be bound by an arbitration contract has a “repeatedly recognized” exception. Sawyers, 26 So. 3d at 1038 (¶31). “[A] non-signatory may be able to enforce an arbitration agreement against a signatory where the non-signatory has a close legal relationship with a signatory of the agreement” and where the plaintiff alleges “substantially interdependent and concerted misconduct” between the signatory and non-signatory. Id. at (¶¶31-32) (citations omitted).
Johnnie Wheeler v. State – revocation of parole – Wheeler was on parole for a 1970 murder conviction, when, in January 2013, he pled guilty on January 15, 2013, to felony shoplifting. This resulted in the revocation of his parole. On appeal, Wheeler argues that (1) his due process was violated because a clerical error existed regarding his name and birth date; (2) the parole board denied him a preliminary revocation hearing; and (3) the trial court failed to provide him notice of the date of his evidentiary hearing on his PCR motion. The COA affirms.

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