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IN RE FORDICE

No. 96-M-00114-SCT.

691 So.2d 429 (1997)

In re Kirk FORDICE, as Governor of the State of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 13, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip W. Gaines, Steven W. Wall, Currie Johnson Griffin Gaines & Myers, Jackson; Mark Garriga, Jackson; Greg Hinkebein, Jackson, for Petitioner.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Jackson; William Allain, Jackson; Richard F. Scruggs, Charles J. Mikhail, Scruggs Millette Lawson Bozeman & Dent, Pascagoula, for Respondent.

Deidra D. Jones, Brooke Ferris, Norman Gene Hortman, Jr., Gibbes Graves Millins Bullock & Ferris, Laurel; W. Wayne Drinkwater, Jr., Lake Tindall & Thaxton, Jackson; Jim Warren, III, Waycaster & Warren, Jackson; Raymond D. Cotton, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, Washington, DC; David W. Baria, Hubbard Pierce & Baria, Jackson; Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Sharon L. Scott, Thomas H. Green, Ass't Attorneys General, Boston, MA; Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General of Florida, Tallahassee, FL; Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA; Jeffrey B. Pine, Attorney General of Rhode Island, Providence, RI; Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Attorney General of Vermont, Montpelier, VT, for Amicus Curiae.

En Banc.

SMITH, Justice, for the Court:

This matter is before this Court on Governor Fordice's invocation of the original jurisdiction of this Court in an attempt to assert authority in general over certain duties concerning the Division of Medicaid and in particular over the conduct of a certain lawsuit pending in the Chancery Court of Jackson County. The Governor specifically asks that this Court order the Attorney General of this State to perform certain acts and to refrain...

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