PERKINS v. MS. DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES

No. 2013-CA-00736-SCT.

145 So.3d 670 (2014)

Charlotte PERKINS v. MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 21, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander J. Simpson, III , attorney for appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Greta D. Mack Harris , Denita N. Smith , attorneys for appellee.

Before DICKINSON, P.J., PIERCE and COLEMAN, JJ.


PIERCE, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. Charlotte Perkins appeals the Monroe County Circuit Court's decision to dismiss, for lack of jurisdiction, her appeal to the circuit court claiming that the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) wrongly deprived her of receiving "food stamps" and that such deprivation was the result of a DHS hearing in which Perkins was deprived of procedural safeguards. As the circuit court found, no statutory authority creates a...

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