SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Alabama to implement a redistricting plan that is being challenged as illegal racial gerrymandering. But the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision put the lower court’s ruling on hold, effectively allowing Alabama to proceed with its preferred map as it prepares for primary elections in May.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday night cleared the way for Alabama to carry out a lethal injection of an inmate who argued that he had the right to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method that supporters say is more humane. For over 20 years, the default method of execution in Alabama has been lethal injection. On Monday, U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 18, 2022

Maynard Cooper & Gale PC has added a litigator with a track record representing companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Target Corp. as a shareholder in its Birmingham, Alabama, office.

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LegalReader

JULY 7, 2022

Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore has lost a defamation lawsuit against the "Borat" star, alleging that Baron Cohen defamed him by making a fake "pedophile detector" beep in his presence.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Earlier in the litigation, the court ruled that the gerrymandering claim was “justiciable” under the New Mexico Constitution. This is not the only gerrymandering litigation in the US that has arisen before upcoming election cycles. Justiciability refers to the ability of a court to hear an issue.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 1, 2021

Alabama father brings lawsuit against Sequel facility alleging staff abused his son.

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Law 360

APRIL 18, 2024

If the Eleventh Circuit upholds an Alabama federal court’s injunction against the Corporate Transparency Act, the anti-money laundering law could persist as a narrower version that could moot some constitutional challenges, but these remedies would likely generate additional regulatory or statutory ambiguities that would result in further litigation, (..)

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Alabama is still facing a federal lawsuit alleging inhumane conditions in its state-run prisons.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A Birmingham, Alabama, domestic relations judge has been removed from the bench based on findings that she used Facebook aliases to communicate with litigants and…

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In another recently settled suit, 3M will pay nearly $100 million to Alabama residents.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The most crucial issue in any accident lawsuit is whether the defendant’s behavior was responsible for the losses that the plaintiff is claiming.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

* Congressional Republicans are rushing to SAY they support IVF in light of the Alabama Supreme Court ruling. Reuters ] * Litigation in high demand for West Coast Biglaw. so why are they actively trying to block a bill to protect IVF? Slate ] * SBF wants prison term under 6.5 years while prosecutors are asking for 100 years.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I’m going back to the days when I was a litigation paralegal. The case was over, and the partner in charge of that case was also in charge of the firm’s entire litigation department. If you’re reading this and you were a litigation paralegal in the 90s before eDiscovery became mainstream, you know what I’m talking about.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Other states that have successfully passed bans on gender-affirming care for minors have faced litigation. A federal judge in Alabama declined to pause a challenge to an Alabama law that criminalized gender-affirming care for minors on Tuesday.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 15, 2022

An attorney for the deceased inmate's estate claims that the corrections officials have destroyed or otherwise "lost" critical evidence.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 20, 2023

The City of Valley had earlier imprisoned an 82-year-old woman who had forgotten to pay her past-due garbage collection bill of $77.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 9, 2021

Two semi-trucks crashed into a Girls Ranch van, killing all eight children aboard.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The case is the newest piece of litigation over tribal sovereignty following the Supreme Court’s McGirt decision, which held that the US Congress had never dissolved the reservations of the so-called “Five-Civilized Tribes,” including the Creek Nation, despite the incorporation of Oklahoma as a state in 1907.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The physician who examined the victim said that he "could not understand" how or why an inmate would have such a low body temperature if they were inside an ordinary jail facility.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that a single inspector in the Etowah County in the sheriff's office has been involved in the arrests of dozens of women suspected of doing drugs while pregnant.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 26, 2021

Friday was the most crash-prone day of the week, but Saturday was the most fatality-prone day.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 19, 2021

has agreed to pay out about $99 million to end litigation and negotiations related to claims one of its largest manufacturing plants has been discharging hazardous and solid waste containing cancer-linked chemicals, known as PFAS, into the Tennessee River in Alabama, the company announced Tuesday.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Share In February, a divided Supreme Court temporarily blocked a ruling by a three-judge district court in Alabama, which had agreed that the state’s new congressional map likely violates the Voting Rights Act. Alabama’s solicitor general, Edmund LaCour, argued for the state.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Under a system of contributory negligence, plaintiffs are banned from filing lawsuits if they contributed to their own accidents in any way.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Sexual harassment lawyers will not only fight to protect an employee’s rights, but they are here to help you understand the different ways you can address a workplace issue.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

Recently, litigation has been brought against an Idaho law that banned student ID cards as an adequate form of voter identification. Additionally, the US Supreme Court ordered both Alabama and Louisiana to redraw congressional maps found to politically favor one party over the other.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The action against North Carolina is not the only ongoing voting rights litigation in the country. Rights groups have recently challenged redistricting maps in Georgia , Tennessee , North Dakota , Louisiana , Alabama , and South Carolina.

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LegalReader

JUNE 8, 2021

Brooks has since alleged that the lawsuit was served illegally.

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LegalReader

APRIL 21, 2022

Drug distributor McKesson and manufacturers reach a deal with the state.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

21, when Willie Smith III was executed in Alabama for the 1991 murder of Sharma Ruth Johnson, his pastor was at his side. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a Texas inmate’s bid to obtain the same kind of aid from his pastor that Alabama allowed Wiley to provide to Smith. Share On Oct. The current case.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

People are seeking the closure of the houses located in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama. The haunted house requires participants to get a doctor’s note and sign a 40-page waiver before they enter. McKamey insists that it is just a “crazy haunted house” and stops well short of the legal-definition of torture.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Specifically, they said, the state’s new plan packed many Black voters into a single district in a part of central Alabama known as the “Black Belt,” while at the same time dispersing Black voters in the rest of the Black Belt into several other districts. Republicans went on to win six of the state’s seven House seats in November.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

and the estate of Megan Rondini recently agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 13, 2021

However, the judge did instruct the Justice Department to be more specific in its claims against the state.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In 1968, Congress transferred the federal government’s trust responsibility for the Pueblo to the state of Texas, following a similar action it had taken in 1954 for a much larger reservation held by the Alabama-Coushatta in East Texas. Three provisions of the Restoration Act are relevant.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

People are seeking the closure of the houses located in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama. The haunted house requires participants to get a doctor’s note and sign a 40-page waiver before they enter. McKamey insists that it is just a “crazy haunted house” and stops well short of the legal-definition of torture.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

On March 1, 2024, a lower Alabama federal court held that the Corporate Transparency Act, which requires certain businesses to file a BOI Report with FinCEN that includes information about their beneficial owners, is unconstitutional.

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