• April 4, 2024Zoning & Land UseRuling IssuedMS

    State of Mississippi v. Aldrich (Biloxi Waterfront Tidelands Title Dispute)

    The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed a Harrison County Chancery Court ruling that roughly one acre of Biloxi waterfront property — the former site of the Aldrich family's Fisherman's Wharf restaurant, later home to the Lady Luck Casino — belongs to John Bret Aldrich rather than the State, rejecting the Secretary of State's argument that a 1994 tidelands map controlled over a 1784 Spanish land grant predating…

  • March 2, 2023Zoning & Land UseRuling IssuedMS

    State of Mississippi v. RW Development, LLC (Biloxi Casino Pier Tidelands Lease Authority)

    The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed a Harrison County Chancery Court ruling that the City of Biloxi had statutory authority to lease waterfront tidelands to RW Development, LLC for a joint public/private pier at Veterans Avenue — a pier tied to RW's long-pursued casino resort project (since branded Black Marlin Casino) — rejecting the Secretary of State's argument that only the state itself, as tidelands…

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