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MS Code § 11-62-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 62 - Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act|§ 11-62-15. Construction and applicability

  This chapter shall be construed in favor of a broad protection of free exercise of religious beliefs and moral convictions, to the maximum extent permitted by the state and federal constitutions.   The protection of free exercise of religious beliefs and moral convictions afforded by this chapter are in addition to the protections provided under federal law, state law, and the state and federal constitutions. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to preempt or repeal any state or local law that is equally or more protective of free exercise of religious beliefs or moral convictions. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to narrow the meaning or application of any state or local law protecting free exercise of religious beliefs or moral convictions. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the state government from providing, either directly or through an individual or entity not seeking protection under this chapter, any benefit or service authorized under state law.   This chapter applies to, and in cases of conflict supersedes, each statute of the state that impinges upon the free exercise of religious beliefs and moral convictions protected by this chapter, unless a conflicting statute is expressly made exempt from the application of this chapter. This chapter also applies to, and in cases of conflict supersedes, any ordinance, rule, regulation, order, opinion, decision, practice or other exercise of the state government's authority that impinges upon the free exercise of religious beliefs or moral convictions protected by this chapter.
MS Code § 11-62-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 62 - Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act|§ 11-62-17. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:    "State benefit program" means any program administered or funded by the state, or by any agent on behalf of the state, providing cash, payments, grants, contracts, loans or in-kind assistance.   "State government" means:   The State of Mississippi or a political subdivision of the state;   Any agency of the state or of a political subdivision of the state, including a department, bureau, board, commission, council, court or public institution of higher education;   Any person acting under color of state law; and   Any private party or third party suing under or enforcing a law, ordinance, rule or regulation of the state or political subdivision of the state.     "Person" means:   A natural person, in his or her individual capacity, regardless of religious affiliation or lack thereof, or in his or her capacity as a member, officer, owner, volunteer, employee, manager, religious leader, clergy or minister of any entity described in this section;   A religious organization;   A sole proprietorship, or closely held company, partnership, association, organization, firm, corporation, cooperative, trust, society or other closely held entity operating with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction described in this chapter; or   Cooperatives, ventures or enterprises comprised of two (2) or more individuals or entities described in this subsection.     "Religious organization" means:   A house of worship, including, but not limited to, churches, synagogues, shrines, mosques and temples;   A religious group, corporation, association, school or educational institution, ministry, order, society or similar entity, regardless of whether it is integrated or affiliated with a church or other house of worship; and   An officer, owner, employee, manager, religious leader, clergy or minister of an entity or organization described in this subsection (4).     "Adoption or foster care" or "adoption or foster care service" means social services provided to or on behalf of children, including:   Assisting abused or neglected children;   Teaching children and parents occupational, homemaking and other domestic skills;   Promoting foster parenting;   Providing foster homes, residential care, group homes or temporary group shelters for children;   Recruiting foster parents;   Placing children in foster homes;   Licensing foster homes;   Promoting adoption or recruiting adoptive parents;   Assisting adoptions or supporting adoptive families;   Performing or assisting home studies;   Assisting kinship guardianships or kinship caregivers;   Providing family preservation services;   Providing family support services; and   Providing temporary family reunification services.
MS Code § 11-62-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 62 - Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act|§ 11-62-19. Relation to Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act

 The provisions of this chapter shall be excluded from the application of Section 11-61-1.
MS Code § 11-63-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 63 - Application of Foreign Law|§ 11-63-1. Application of foreign law prohibited under certain circumstances

  In this section, "foreign law" means any law, rule, legal code or legal system other than the constitution, laws and ratified treaties of the United States and the territories of the United States, the constitution and laws of another state of the United States, Native American tribal law, the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, and the laws of this state.   A court, arbitrator, administrative agency or other adjudicative, mediation or enforcement authority shall not enforce a foreign law if doing so would violate a right guaranteed to a natural person by the United States Constitution or the Mississippi Constitution of 1890.
MS Code § 11-65-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 65 - Enforcement of Federal Laws, Orders, Rules|§ 11-65-1. Enforcement of certain federal laws, orders, or rules prohibited

 No federal executive order, agency order, law not enrolled by the United States Congress and signed by the President of the United States, rule, regulation or administrative interpretation of a law or statute issued, enacted or promulgated after July 1, 2016, that violates the United States Constitution or the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 shall be enforced or ordered to be enforced by any official, agent or employee of this state or a political subdivision thereof.
MS Code § 11-67-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 67 - Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act|§ 11-67-1. Short title

 This chapter may be cited as the "Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act."
MS Code § 11-67-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 67 - Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act|§ 11-67-3. Declaration of legislative intent

  The Legislature finds and determines that:   Asbestos is a mineral that was widely used for insulation, fireproofing, and other purposes;   Exposure to asbestos has been causally associated with mesothelioma and lung cancer, as well as nonmalignant conditions such as asbestosis, pleural plaques, and diffuse pleural thickening;   Approximately one hundred (100) employers have declared bankruptcy at least partially due to asbestos-related liability;   Over ten thousand (10,000) companies have been named as asbestos defendants, including many small- and medium-sized companies, in industries that cover eighty-five percent (85%) of the United States economy;   Scores of trusts have been established in asbestos-related bankruptcy proceedings to form a multibillion dollar asbestos bankruptcy trust compensation system outside of the tort system, and new asbestos trusts continue to be established;   Asbestos plaintiffs often seek compensation both from solvent defendants in civil actions and from trusts or claims facilities formed in asbestos-related bankruptcy proceedings;   There is limited coordination and transparency between these two (2) paths to recovery, which has resulted in the suppression of evidence in asbestos actions; and   Justice is promoted by transparency with respect to asbestos bankruptcy trust claims in civil asbestos actions.     Now, therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to:   Provide transparency with respect to asbestos bankruptcy trust claims in civil asbestos actions by creating a substantive right for defendants to obtain bankruptcy trust discovery;   Reduce the opportunity for oversight or suppression of evidence in asbestos actions; and   Enhance the ability of courts to oversee and manage asbestos cases.
MS Code § 11-67-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 67 - Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act|§ 11-67-5. Definitions

 The following words and phrases as used in this chapter have the meaning ascribed to them in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:   "Asbestos" includes, without limitation, chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite asbestos, anthophyllite asbestos, actinolite asbestos, asbestiform winchite, asbestiform richterite, asbestiform amphibole minerals, and any of these minerals that have been chemically treated or altered, including all minerals defined as asbestos in 29 CFR 1910 at the time the asbestos action is filed.   "Asbestos action" means a claim for damages or other civil or equitable relief presented in a civil action by a plaintiff arising out of, based on, or related to the health effects of exposure to asbestos, including, but not limited to, loss of consortium, wrongful death, mental or emotional injury.   "Asbestos trust" means a government-approved or court-approved trust, qualified settlement fund, compensation fund or claims facility created as a result of an administrative or legal action, a court-approved bankruptcy, or pursuant to 11 U.S.C. 524(g) or 11 U.S.C. 1121(a) or other applicable provision of law, that is intended to provide compensation to claimants arising out of, based on, or related to the health effects of exposure to asbestos.   "Asbestos trust claim" includes, but is not limited to, any claim or demand for compensation for asbestos-related injuries from an asbestos trust.   "Plaintiff" means the exposed person, deceased or living, and the person bringing the asbestos action, including a personal representative if the asbestos action is brought by an estate, or a conservator or next friend if the asbestos action is brought on behalf of a minor or legally incapacitated individual.   "Trust materials" means a final executed proof of claim and all other documents and information related to a claim against an asbestos trust and any other information that the plaintiff submits to the asbestos trust, including claims forms and supplementary materials, affidavits, correspondence, depositions and trial testimony, work history, medical and health records, documents reflecting the status of a claim against an asbestos trust, and, if the trust claim has settled, all documents relating to the settlement of the trust claim.   "Trust governance documents" means all documents that relate to eligibility and payment levels, including, but not limited to, claims payment matrices, trust distribution procedures, or plans for reorganization, for an asbestos trust.
MS Code § 11-67-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 67 - Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act|§ 11-67-7. Required disclosures by the plaintiff

  Within thirty (30) days after an asbestos action is filed, or by August 1, 2017, whichever is later, the plaintiff shall do all of the following:   Provide the court and parties with a sworn statement signed by the plaintiff, under penalties of perjury, that all asbestos trust claims that can be made by the plaintiff have been filed and that includes the following:   A statement that an investigation of all asbestos trust claims has been conducted;   A list identifying each asbestos trust claim that has been filed by the plaintiff;   A list identifying each asbestos trust claim that can be made by the plaintiff, which has not been filed for the sole permissible reason that the cost of submitting an asbestos trust claim exceeds the plaintiff's reasonably anticipated recovery; and   Whether there has been a request to defer, delay, suspend, toll, withdraw, or otherwise alter the standing of any asbestos trust claim, and provide the status and disposition of each asbestos trust claim.     Provide all parties with all trust materials, including trust materials that relate to conditions other than those that are the basis for the asbestos action and including all trust materials from all law firms connected to the plaintiff in relation to exposure to asbestos, including anyone at a law firm involved in the asbestos action, any referring law firm, and any other firm that has filed an asbestos trust claim for the plaintiff. Documents should be accompanied by a custodial affidavit from the asbestos trust, certifying that the trust materials submitted to defendants are true and complete.   If the plaintiff's asbestos trust claim is based on secondary exposure to asbestos through another individual or individuals, the plaintiff shall produce all trust materials submitted by the other individual or individuals to any asbestos trusts if the materials are available to the plaintiff or the plaintiff's counsel.     The plaintiff has a continuing duty to supplement the information and materials required under subsection (1) and the supplementation shall be made no later than thirty (30) days after the plaintiff supplements an existing asbestos trust claim, receives additional information or materials related to an asbestos trust claim, or files an additional asbestos trust claim.   The court may dismiss the asbestos action if the plaintiff fails to comply with this section.   An asbestos action may not be set for trial until at least one hundred eighty (180) days after the requirements of subsection (1) are met.   Not less than thirty (30) days before trial in an asbestos action, the court shall enter into the record a document that identifies every asbestos trust claim made by the plaintiff.
MS Code § 11-67-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 67 - Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act|§ 11-67-9. Identification of additional asbestos trust claims by defendant; trust record

  A defendant may file a motion requesting a stay of the proceeding on or before the later of the sixtieth day before the date of trial in the action is set to commence or any other such time for which the defendant has a good faith reasonable basis to request a stay. The motion shall identify the asbestos trust claims not previously identified that the defendant believes the plaintiff can file and include information supporting the asbestos trust claims.   Within ten (10) days of receiving the defendant's motion, the plaintiff shall:   File the asbestos trust claims; or   File a written response with the court requesting a determination that the cost to file the asbestos trust claims exceeds the plaintiff's reasonably anticipated recovery.       Subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection (3), if the court determines that there is a basis for the plaintiff to file an asbestos trust claim identified in the motion to stay, the court shall stay the asbestos action until the plaintiff files the asbestos trust claim and produces all related trust claims materials.   If the court determines that the cost of submitting an asbestos trust claim exceeds the plaintiff's reasonably anticipated recovery, the court shall stay the asbestos action until the plaintiff files with the court and provides all parties with a verified statement of the plaintiff's history of exposure, usage, or other connection to asbestos covered by that asbestos trust.     An asbestos action may not be set for trial until at least sixty (60) days after the plaintiff complies with the requirements of this section.
MS Code § 11-67-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 67 - Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act|§ 11-67-11. Discovery; use of materials

  Trust materials and trust governance documents are presumed to be relevant and authentic, and are admissible in evidence in an asbestos action. A claim of privilege does not apply to any trust materials or trust governance documents.   A defendant in an asbestos action may seek discovery from an asbestos trust. The plaintiff may not claim privilege or confidentiality to bar discovery and shall provide consent at the time of asbestos trust identification, including, but not limited to, authorization for release of trust materials or other expression of permission that may be required by the asbestos trust to release information and materials sought by a defendant.   Trust materials that are sufficient to entitle a claim to consideration for payment under the applicable trust governance documents are sufficient to support a jury finding that the plaintiff was exposed to products for which the trust was established to provide compensation and that, under applicable law, such exposure is a substantial contributing factor in causing the plaintiff's injury that is at issue in the asbestos action.
MS Code § 11-67-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 67 - Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act|§ 11-67-13. Failure to provide information; sanctions

  If the plaintiff files an asbestos trust claim after the plaintiff obtains a judgment in an asbestos action, and that asbestos trust was in existence at the time the plaintiff obtained the judgment, the trial court, on motion by a defendant or judgment debtor seeking sanctions or other relief, has jurisdiction to reopen the judgment in the asbestos action and adjust the judgment and order any relief to the parties that the court considers just and proper.   A defendant or judgment debtor shall file any motion under this section within a reasonable time and not more than one (1) year after the judgment was entered.
MS Code § 11-67-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 67 - Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act|§ 11-67-15. Application

 This chapter shall apply to all asbestos actions filed on or after July 1, 2017, and to all pending asbestos tort actions in which trial has not commenced as of July 1, 2017.
MS Code § 11-69-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 69 - Liability exemption for furnishing information concerning insurance fraud|§ 11-69-1. Immunity of persons or entities from civil liability for furnishing information concerning insurance fraud; applicability

  Except as otherwise providedin subsection (2) of this section, there shall be no civil liabilityimposed on and no cause of action shall arise against a person orentity for furnishing information concerning suspected or completedinsurance fraud to any law enforcement, investigatory, prosecutorialor regulatory agent or agency, insurer, or statutory residual marketplan. This shall not abrogate or modify common law or statutory privilegesor immunities enjoyed by a person or entity. The prohibition of civilliability applies only to the act of reporting and does not limitcivil liability against a person or entity for committing fraud orother tortious conduct.   Subsection (1) of thissection shall not apply to claims against persons where false statementswere made in bad faith by persons furnishing information concerningsuspected or completed insurance fraud. Any civil action brought againsta person for filing a report or furnishing other information concerninginsurance fraud shall be dismissed unless the party bringing the actionhas pleaded specifically that subsection (1) of this section doesnot apply because the person filing the report or furnishing the informationdid so in bad faith, and has pleaded specifically facts that supporta claim of bad faith.
MS Code § 13-3-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-1. Provisions of chapter applicable to all courts

 The law of process as declared in this chapter, except where its provisions are provided for by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure or by the nature of the subject matter, shall govern in all courts.
MS Code § 13-3-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-3. Style and date of process

 The style of all process shall be, "The State of Mississippi." It shall not be necessary that any process bear teste in the name of any judge or of any term of the court, but all process, except where otherwise provided, shall be issued and signed by the clerk of the court, with the seal of his office affixed, and shall bear date of the day on which the process shall be issued.
MS Code § 13-3-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-5. The summons

  The process to bring in defendants in all civil actions in all courts except justice court shall be a summons, the form, issuance, service, waiver, return, amendment and time limits of which shall be governed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.   The process to bring in defendants in all civil actions in justice court shall be a summons which shall be served in one of the following modes:  First.- Upon the defendant personally, if to be found in the county, by handing him a true copy of the process.   Second.- If the defendant cannot himself be found in the county, then by leaving a true copy of the process at his usual place of abode, with his wife or some other person of his family above the age of sixteen (16) years, and willing to receive such copy.   Third.- If the defendant cannot himself be found, and if no person of his family aged sixteen (16) years can be found at his usual place of abode who is willing to receive such copy, then by posting a true copy on a door of the defendant's usual place of abode; provided, however, that if this mode is used when the defendant's usual place of abode is a multi-family dwelling, a copy of the summons shall be mailed to the defendant by the clerk of the court upon return of service.
MS Code § 13-3-7 through 13-3-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-7 through 13-3-13.

 Repealed by Laws of 1991, ch. 573, § 141, eff from and after July 1, 1991.    §13-3-7. [Codes, 1857, ch. 62, art. 29; 1871, § 1008; 1880, § 1853; 1892, § 3415; 1906, § 3914; Hemingway's 1917, § 2921; 1930, § 2966; 1942, § 1846]    §13-3-9. [Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 58, art. 1 (24); 1857, ch. 61, art. 66; 1871, § 697; 1880, § 1524; 1892, § 3416; 1906, § 3915; Hemingway's 1917, § 2922; 1930, § 2967; 1942, § 1847]    §13-3-11. [Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 58, art. 1 (20); 1857, ch. 61, art. 62; 1871, § 695; 1880, § 1525; 1892, § 3417; 1906, § 3916; Hemingway's 1917, § 2923; 1930, § 2968; 1942, § 1848]    §13-3-13. [Codes, 1857, ch. 62, art. 26; 1871, § 1005; 1880, § 1848; 1892, § 3418; 1906, § 3917; Hemingway's 1917, § 2924; 1930, § 2969; 1942, § 1849: Laws, 1924, ch. 151]
MS Code § 13-3-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-15. Separate or additional summons; attachment against estate of defendant

 Upon the request of the plaintiff, separate or additional summons shall issue against any defendants. When the defendant shall not be found, the plaintiff may have an attachment against the estate of the defendant. If, upon such attachment, the sheriff shall seize or attach any property of the defendant, the same proceedings shall thereafter be had as if the suit had been originally commenced by attachment.