Background
Freeland, T. H. was born on November 3, 1955 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.
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T. H. Freeland
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University of Mississippi (Bachelor of Arts, 1977. Juris Doctor, 1981).
Career
Neville v. American Republic Insurance. Company, 912 F.2d 813 (5th Circuit 1990); Jones v. Thigpen, 741 F2d 805 (5th Circuit 1984), certified granted in part, 475 United States. 1003 (1985), on remand 788 F.2d 1101 (5th Circuit 1986); Griffin v. State, 545 Southern 2d 729 (Mississippi 1989) and 584 Southern 2d 1274 (Mississippi 1991).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, 1981, Mississippi.
1986, United States.
Supreme Court. Phi Delta Phi. American Inns of Court III. 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).
Law Clerk to Frank H. McFadden, Chief Judge, United States. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, 1981-1982. Chairman, Mississippi State Bar Capital Defense Resource Center Liaison Committee, 1992.
Member: Lafayette County and American Bar Associations.
Mississippi State Bar. American Judicature Society.
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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Member: Lafayette County and American Bar Associations. Mississippi State Bar. American Judicature Society.
