This chapter may be cited as the “Litigation Accountability Act of 1988.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-55-1
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Known as the Litigation Accountability Act
The act spans §§ 11–11 (8 sections).
Applied in 35 court decisions — leading case 615 So. 2d 1177 - Stevens v. Lake (1993)
Most recently applied in Curtis Ray McCarty, Jr. v. Arthur Wood, III (January 2018)
Laws, 1988, ch. 495, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1988.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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