Judge advances transparency suit against Mississippi River Commission

JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge issued an order on Monday allowing a government transparency lawsuit by a multistate newspaper company against the Mississippi River Commission to continue.

Congress created the Mississippi River Commission in 1879 to survey the river and, after the 1927 flood, to work under and alongside the Army Corps of Engineers in inspecting flood control measures along the river.

Emmerich Newspapers Inc., a Mississippi company that oversees dozens of publications across Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, sued the Mississippi River Commission in September 2024 over the commission’s alleged misuse of private meetings and failure to keep public records or provide sufficient notice of those meetings since 2010.

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