Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 75-21-37 (2026)
Duties of district attorneys
✓ current as of July 2026
It shall be the duty of the district attorneys in their several districts, when requested by the attorney general, to enforce the civil features of the antitrust laws of this state by appropriate legal proceedings and suits at law or in equity; and their duty to enforce criminal features of said laws shall be the same as their duty to enforce other criminal statutes. All such suits shall be brought by and in the name of the State of Mississippi upon the relation of the attorney general or an authorized district attorney.
Codes, 1906, § 5016; Hemingway's 1917, § 3298; 1930, § 3454; 1942, § 1106; Laws, 1926, ch. 182.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 2012–2016 · leading case: State of Mississippi v. AU Optronics Corp., 701 F.3d 796 (5th Cir. 2012).
State of Mississippi v. AU Optronics Corp., 701 F.3d 796 (5th Cir. 2012). “In reaching that conclusion, Judge Southwick acknowledged two important principles: (1) “the plaintiff is the master of his complaint,” and (2) “[d]oubts about propriety of See Miss. Code Ann. § 75-21-37 (providing direct statutory authority for Mississippi “to enforce civil…”
In re Opana ER Antritrust Litig., 162 F. Supp. 3d 704 (N.D. Ill. 2016). “Mississippi does not provide for class actions in its state courts as a matter of state procedure. Its antitrust law states that “[i]t shall be the duty of the district attorneys.”
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