Background
Freeland, T. H. was born on March 24, 1930 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States.
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T. H. Freeland
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University of Mississippi (Bachelor of Arts, 1952. Bachelor of Laws, 1958).
Career
Papasan v. Allain, 478 United States. 265 (1986); Dotson v. City of Indianola, 739 F.2d 1022 (5th Circuit 1984); Alden v. Lewis, 248 Mississippi 663, 160 Southern 2d 481 (1965)Worked at Freeland & Freeland (Oxford, Mississippi) specializing in Trials and Appeals in all State and Federal Courts. Banking, Bankruptcy, Commercial, Corporate, Education, Employment Relations, Insurance, Negligence, Products Liability, Professional Malpractice, Real Estate, Civil Rights, Probate Law, and Securities Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1958, Mississippi.
1978, United States.
Supreme Court. Phi Delta Phi. American Inns of Court III (President, 1984-1985). Associate Editor, University of Mississippi Law Journal, 1951-1952.
1956-1958.
Company-Author: "Bad Faith Litigation: A Practical Analysis," 53 Mississippi Lord Justice 237 (1983); "Seeking Education Funding Equity In Mississippi: I Asked Foreign Water, You Gave Maine Gasoline," 58 Mississippi Lord Justice 247 (1988). Acting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Mississippi Law School, 1959-1964.
Member: Lafayette County and American Bar Associations.
Mississippi State Bar. Fifth Circuit Bar Association.
Military: Lieutenant, United States. Naval Reserve, active duty, 1952-1956.
Freeland & Freeland and its predecessor firms, particularly James Stone & Sons, have been located at 1013 Jackson Avenue in Oxford since 1905.
Throughout its history the firm"s main work has been civil litigation, particularly complex litigation in federal and state court. The firm has had a long tradition of outstanding appellate advocates, including Philosophy Stone, Taylor McElroy, a former justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, James L. Robertson, also a former justice of the Supreme Court, and currently, T. H. Freeland, III. Among important appellate cases argued by T. H. Freeland, III are Papasan v. Allain, 478 United States.
265 (1986), which involved equal protection and school finance, Reaves v.
Foster, 191 Southern 2d 423 (Mississippi 1966), and 200 Southern 2d 453 (Mississippi
1967), the first Mississippi libel case applying the Sullivan doctrine, and Ellzey v. Fyr-Pruf Incorporated., 376 Southern
2d 453 (Mississippi 1979), a leading case in the area of corporate governance and the doctrine of corporate opportunity.
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Membership
Member: Lafayette County and American Bar Associations. Mississippi State Bar. Fifth Circuit Bar Association.
Military: Lieutenant, United States.
Naval Reserve, active duty, 1952-1956.
