The discovery missteps were real, but the panel found one piece of the defense had real footing
A Mississippi appeals court has wiped out a $52,433.85 attorney-fee award against the state prison agency, ruling the trial court swung too hard.
The Mississippi Court of Appeals on May 12, 2026 reversed an order that had forced the Mississippi Department of Corrections to pay all of former probation/parole officer Greg Galloway's attorneys' fees in a wage dispute. The $7,231.63 he was awarded for unpaid wages and expense reimbursements stands. The fee award goes back to the trial court for another look.
Galloway worked the security detail at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman from January to March 2020, after riots broke out at the prison in late 2019 and early 2020. He later worked shifts transporting inmates to Memphis-area hospitals in November 2021. He resigned that December. When a pre-suit demand for his wages went unanswered, he sued MDOC in Hinds County Circuit Court for breach of contract and violations of his rights under the Mississippi Constitution.
The case then turned into a discovery fight. MDOC objected to every one of Galloway's requests on the grounds that the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction, missed deadlines, filed a response to a motion to compel at 10 p.m. the night before the hearing, and then failed to appear at the hearing the next morning. The circuit court eventually entered a default judgment against MDOC on liability as a...
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