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For those following either the Maria Brown case against the Nutt firm or the never-ending efforts by State Farm to disqualify the remaining members of the Katrina Group lawyers, Rossmiller has an interesting post this morning. SF has filed a reply brief on disqualification, found through Rossmiller, here. Abnormally for such a brief, it is filled with new facts, primarily an excerpt from the deposition of Maria Brown. The excerpt is tantalizing, because it is only snippets, all about the contact between the Nutt firm and the Rigsbys, and about the Rigsby documents.

One part concerns the Nutt firm’s creative use of the purloined Renfroe claims documents to solicit clients. They had someone do a spreadsheet of people with State Farm coverage and claims, and then when they filed the Shows RICO suit, sent the folks on the spreedsheet a letter soliciting handling their claims against State Farm. A copy of one of the letters is included in the packet.

Also included in the evidence is a bit of a new deposition of Brian Ford, the engineer/fact witness Scruggs hired as a consultant. Like the excerpts from the transcripts in the US v. Scruggs motions last week, these excerpts leave a lot to be desired, but you may want to check them out.