# Atlas Commons research objects — civil legal aid capacity for Mississippi (FY2025) — context brief

Mississippi's LSC-funded civil legal aid capacity from the LSC Basic Field grant directory, with each figure's status labeled so a consuming agent can weight it correctly: the measured LSC records (provider count, awarded grant dollars, service-area types, and the Census-based poverty population LSC allocates by); one computed figure — LSC funding per person in poverty — a transparent ratio neither LSC nor Census publishes, with its formula disclosed; and the interpretive boundary (what this funding/capacity surface is, and is not). Source: LSC Basic Field grant directory. CC0.

Claims (warrant · source), each re-fetchable to verify:

- **2 LSC-funded civil legal aid providers received $5,823,775 in Mississippi (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **480,535 people in poverty live in the LSC service areas covering Mississippi (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory — poverty population (U.S. Census/ACS) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **LSC grant counts by service-area type in Mississippi (FY2025): Basic Field 2, Native American 1** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **LSC civil legal aid funding is $11.86 per person in poverty in Mississippi (FY2025) — a derived ratio** — DERIVED · Justice Atlas — derived ratio (LSC allocation ÷ service-area poverty population, over the same set of grants) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **What this legal-aid surface is — and is NOT — for Mississippi (the epistemic boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the LSC facts above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **Mississippi sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for defamation (libel / slander) (Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-35)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-15/chapter-1/section-15-1-35/)
- **Mississippi sets a 2 years; max 7 years (repose) civil statute of limitations for medical malpractice (Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-36)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-15/chapter-1/section-15-1-36/)
- **Mississippi sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for contract oral (Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-29)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-15/chapter-1/section-15-1-29/)
- **Mississippi sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for contract written (Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-15/chapter-1/section-15-1-49/)
- **Mississippi sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for fraud (Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-15/chapter-1/section-15-1-49/)
- **Mississippi sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for personal injury (Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-15/chapter-1/section-15-1-49/)
- **Mississippi sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for product liability (Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-15/chapter-1/section-15-1-49/)
- **Mississippi sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for property damage (Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-15/chapter-1/section-15-1-49/)
- **Mississippi sets a 3 years (or applicable underlying tort SOL) civil statute of limitations for wrongful death (Miss. Code Ann. § 11-7-13; § 15-1-49)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-11/chapter-7/in-general/section-11-7-13/)
- **Why these statute-of-limitations periods are NOT your deadline (the L5 boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the statutes above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)

Do not take these on trust — re-fetch each named source. Full structured object: `https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/justice/states/ms.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**Mississippi — every legal-aid indicator (typed)** (6): LSC-funded providers (distinct organizations) — 2 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; LSC service-area grants — 3 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; Total LSC allocation (USD) — 5823775 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory…
**Mississippi — LSC grants by service-area type (RECORDED)** (2): Basic Field — 2; Native American — 1…
**Mississippi — LSC-funded legal-aid grants (RECORDED)** (3): Mississippi Center for Legal Services — MS-10 — Basic Field — 3433299 — 289521; North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, Inc. — MS-9 — Basic Field — 2265149 — 191014; Mississippi Center for Legal Services — NMS-1 — Native American — 125327 — …