Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 7-5-29 (2026)
To attend the Supreme Court
✓ current as of July 2026
The attorney general shall attend the supreme court, in person or by his assistant, and prosecute and defend therein all causes to which the state or any officer thereof in his official capacity is a party, and all causes to which any county may be a party unless the interest of the county be adverse to the state, to some officer thereof acting in his official capacity, or to some other county.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 21, art. 3 (1); 1857, ch. 6, art. 67; 1871, § 163; 1880, § 251; 1892, § 178; 1906, § 184; Hemingway's 1917, § 3472; 1930, § 3665; 1942, § 3836.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1994–2023 · leading case: Rieger v. Grp. Health Ass'n, 851 F. Supp. 788 (N.D. Miss. 1994).
Rieger v. Grp. Health Ass'n, 851 F. Supp. 788 (N.D. Miss. 1994). “Undoubtedly, then, Special Assistants act as representatives of the Attorney General in the eyes of the courts, see Miss.Code Ann. § 7-5-29, the legislative and executive branches, and a host of administrative agencies, state officials, and the general public.”
Douglas Allen Taylor v. State of Mississippi (Miss. Ct. App. 2023). “2018) (recognizing that the attorney general’s office is a “prosecutorial office[]”); Miss. Code Ann. § 7-5-29 (Rev. 2019) (“The attorney general shall attend the supreme court, in person or by his assistant, and prosecute and defend therein all causes to which the state .”
Rutland v. Off. of Atty. Gen., State of Miss., 851 F. Supp. 793 (S.D. Miss. 1994). “Undoubtedly, then, Special Assistants act as representatives of the Attorney General in the eyes of the courts, see Miss.Code Ann. § 7-5-29, the legislative and executive branches, and a host of administrative agencies, state officials, and the general public.”
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