Talk:Jim Hood

NPOV tag
There has been a great deal of mainstream press criticism of Jim Hood that is absent from this article, but because I have written some of it,  I leave it to others to do the edits to balance the article. THF 02:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

An anonymous single-purpose-account from Mississippi State continues to attempt to sanitize the article even more than it is already sanitized. The article does need work, but the problem is the absence of information about Hood's questionable role in insurance litigation, and the solution is not to delete what little is there. THF 15:33, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Hood basically operates outside of law to exercise his impact as only liberal in Mississipi government. In the pardon matter, though he got judge to sign order blocking release, the pardons are valid whether or not inmates are released are not. Haley Barbour does not care one way or the other anymore. He issued pardon and moved on. If the prisoners are not released, Barbor does not care. Most of the pardons are not of prisoners, but rather people who want rights restroed to vote, hunt, and regain professional licenses. Pardon was signed. It was up to Governor to decide if conditions were met, not judge or attorney general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.116.212.23 (talk) 15:16, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

There is a pattern of these attorney generals from southern states being homosexual. Is hood in this camp? That mess with the partnership was also messy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.139.67.17 (talk) 11:21, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Treatment of newsy controversies/scandals.
FTR, this, this, and this were reverted to this in keeping with WP encyclopedic standards. Notable events of controversial and scandalous nature are reported in a BLP if they are newsworthy, and the test of newsworthiness is that they are described by reliable sources.

Because the RS describe the controversies/scandals, we consider those data to be relevant to the encyclopedic mission of the article and include them regardless of our estimations of the merit/justness of such attention or criticism. Whether or not we believe the subjects' conduct to be controversial is immaterial. All that matters to us is that it was/is controversial to enough people that it was so described in the sources.

We describe these concisely and neutrally and therefore present them in sections titled "controversy/controversies" (if they are few) or in specific sections for individual controversies (if they are many). — Digiphi (  Talk  ) 23:40, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

I believe the latest controversy with the MPAA and Google qualifies. Here are some links:  — DeweyQ (talk) 20:32, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree - Google filed a lawsuit this should be mentionedChristopheT (talk) 08:13, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

There are two sides to the Google / MPAA / Jim Hood discussion and The Register covers it here: 


 * there are a lot of decent sources that did cover the story - I think there is no need to add 'The Registers' editorial piece.

ChristopheT (talk) 13:12, 2 February 2015 (UTC)


 * The register article specifically addresses the Verge and the NY Times articles as pedling a hypothesis that is not supported by the evidence I think this should be added as a counterpoint to those articles:
 * "So The Verge and the New York Times were peddling a conspiracy theory that the evidence doesn't support. They were also whipping up anger among a constituency that has rallied for them before, very effectively: the "don't break the internet" crowd"


 * I think there are a few issues here :
 * * Part of the documents that leaked during the Sony hack showed that the MPAA and a few big movies studios were working on a a secret legal campaign to discredit Google. They hired a law firm to have draft a letter that Hood was later presenting as coming from his own office when addressing it to Google. (see NYT article). The leak raised a number of questions as to Holden being biased given his close relationship with the MPAA & the movie industry. This also sheds a negative light on former lawsuits brought against Google by Hood's office as it remains unclear whether or not they were also driven and financed by Entertainment & Pharmaceutical lobby groups.


 * The NY Times article is behind a paywall and cannot be accessed by non paying users. Can this be used as evidence without a copy being availaible?


 * * The letter (the one drafted by the MPAA layer) Hold sends to Google contains a number of statements that might suggest Hold is not familiar with the 'free speech' concept and might not be legally competent.

ChristopheT (talk) 13:59, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Project Goliath
Trying to gather together sources that might be useful for expanding on details of the scandal. --BeebLee (talk) 03:07, 26 July 2015 (UTC)


 * June 2013:
 * December 2013:
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 * January 2015:
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Related?
Is he related to Confederate General John Bell Hood?--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 16:23, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

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