JURIST

MARCH 1, 2024

The Alabama House passed a bill and the state Senate unanimously passed another on Thursday that would safeguard access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) following the Alabama Supreme Court decision in LePage v. Mobile Infirmary Clinic, Inc. which classified frozen embryos as children.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

A death row inmate in Alabama filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of nitrogen gas executions. The US Supreme Court allowed Alabama to execute a person with nitrogen gas for the first time last month. ” Bernard E.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A US District Court Northern District of Alabama three judge panel Tuesday tossed out the Alabama legislature’s proposed congressional map, holding that the current map is still racially gerrymandered and likely violates Section Two of the Voting Rights Act.

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APRIL 19, 2024

The Alabama House of Representatives rejected a bill on Wednesday that would allow the resentencing of death row inmates who were sentenced by a trial judge. The bill was defeated in Alabama’s House Judicial Committee by a 9-4 vote. In 2016, the US Supreme Court issued an opinion on Hursts v.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Alabama State Senator Tim Melson filed a bill Tuesday in an effort to protect the state’s in-vitro fertilization (IVF) industry following the recent state Supreme Court ruling. ” On February 16, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered children under state law.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“The Alabama Supreme Court Embraces Fetal Personhood”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link. The post “The Alabama Supreme Court Embraces Fetal Personhood” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2024

A federal judge in Alabama ruled on Wednesday that the state can proceed to use nitrogen gas in the execution of Kenneth Smith. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall then filed a motion to administer death by means of nitrogen hypoxia. In the Middle District of Alabama, however, Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr.

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MARCH 6, 2024

“Thank the Alabama Supreme Court for its IVF decision. And in related news coverage, Kim Bellware of The Washington Post reports that “ Fourth couple sues Alabama clinic at heart of IVF court ruling.” ” The post “Thank the Alabama Supreme Court for its IVF decision.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“Shock, anger, confusion grip Alabama after court ruling on embryos”: Tim Craig and Sabrina Malhi of The Washington Post have this report. Joslin and Mary Ziegler have a Jurisprudence essay titled “ Sam Alito Is to Blame for the Alabama Supreme Court’s Devastating Anti-IVF Ruling.”

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The US Supreme Court denied Alabama’s appeal of a court order prohibiting elections with gerrymandered congressional maps. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has battled claims that the Alabama’s state congressional were racially gerrymandered since 2021. The case Milligan v.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The post Alabama Supreme Court Chief Believes Some WILD Stuff appeared first on Above the Law. He's saying the quite part out loud.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

“Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits”: Howard Koplowitz of Alabama Media Group has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Alabama issued Friday.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

“Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling; The Alabama Supreme Court’s decision is all but guaranteed to gut IVF in the entire state”: Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling has this essay online at The New Republic.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The US Supreme Court Wednesday denied an Alabama man’s petition for a stay of execution. Smith noted that, in 2017, Alabama enacted a law banning trial judges from overriding sentencing decisions by a jury in capital cases. Smith is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Alabama today.

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MARCH 1, 2024

“Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections”: Christine Fernando of The Associated Press has this report. The post “Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a motion Monday arguing that the state can prosecute those who assist people with accessing out-of-state abortion care. In doing so, he asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an abortion assistance fund contending that such prosecutions are unconstitutional.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“Alabama Supreme Court grants state’s request to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia”: Mike Cason of Alabama Media Group has this report. ” The post “Alabama Supreme Court grants state’s request to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia” appeared first on How Appealing.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Wade led to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children”: Jacqueline Howard of CNN has this report. Wade led to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children” appeared first on How Appealing. “How the reversal of Roe v. The post “How the reversal of Roe v.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“Case before Alabama Supreme Court could shut down fertility clinics, medical group warns”: Amy Yurkanin of Alabama Media Group has this report. And Gabriel Tynes of Courthouse News Service has an article headlined “ Alabama Supreme Court considers fundamental question: What is life?

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JULY 26, 2023

“How Alabama could get away with defying the Supreme Court; The Court ordered Alabama to draw a second congressional district where Black voters can elect their chosen candidate”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Alabama bar exam is about to get lit. The post Alabama Declares Frozen Embryos Are Children, Creating Nightmare Rule Against Perpetuities Hypo appeared first on Above the Law.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The US Supreme Court Thurday ruled 5-4 that Alabama may carry out the death sentence of inmate Alan Miller through lethal injection rather than Miller’s requested method of nitrogen hypoxia. The Supreme Court lifted a lower court order that would have required Alabama to use nitrogen hypoxia instead of the lethal injection.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

“US Supreme Court signals it will side with Alabama after police seized women’s cars”: Howard Koplowitz of Alabama Media Group has this report. ” The post “US Supreme Court signals it will side with Alabama after police seized women’s cars” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2023

In a 5-4 vote, the US Supreme Court found Thursday in Allen v. Milligan that Alabama’s legislature violated the voting rights of Black Alabamians with the composition of the state’s congressional maps. The court found that the plaintiffs satisfied all three prongs in this case, upholding the lower court’s decision.

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JURIST

JANUARY 27, 2022

In 2018, Alabama voted to allow execution by nitrogen hypoxia , which proponents argue is less painful and faster than lethal injection. ” But in a 5-4 decision without comment, the US Supreme Court vacated the stay following Alabama’s appeal on Thursday. Reeves was pronounced dead at approximately 9:24PM on Thursday.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The post Court Rejects Alabama Request To Pretty Please Let It Keep Using Racial Gerrymanders Forever appeared first on Above the Law. The Southern strategy.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Trevor Hughes and Minnah Arshad of USA Today have an article headlined “ Alabama justice invoked ‘the wrath of a holy God’ in IVF opinion. ” And in commentary, online at The Los Angeles Times, columnist Harry Litman has an essay titled “ Alabama’s highest court declared frozen embryos people.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2022

A panel of three federal judges Monday blocked Alabama’s new congressional district map, finding that it unlawfully disadvantages Black voters. The court ruled that lawmakers should redraw the map to include two districts with a substantial Black population, rather than one.

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MAY 20, 2023

“Federal court rules Alabama cannot execute Joseph Smith due to his mental disability”: Hadley Hitson of The Montgomery Advertiser has this report on a unanimous per curiam opinion that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued yesterday.

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EvidenceProf Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Similar to their federal counterparts, Alabama Rules of Evidence 901(b)(1) & (4) provide that By way of illustration only, and not by way of limitation, the following are examples of authentication or identification conforming with the requirements of this rule:

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MARCH 13, 2024

“The People Rooting for the End of IVF; An Alabama court ruling that recognized an embryo as a child has put the popular fertility treatment into the center of a national ethics debate”: Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic has this report.

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JANUARY 15, 2023

“After state twice runs out of time, Alabama Supreme Court ends midnight deadline for executions”: Ivana Hrynkiw of Alabama Media Group has this report about an order that the Supreme Court of Alabama issued last Thursday.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2023

Share On Friday morning the Supreme Court declined to block the execution of James Barber, who was sentenced to death in 2003 for the brutal murder of 75-year-old Dorothy Epps. Barber died by lethal injection at a prison in southern Alabama a few hours later. In the wake of the three botched executions in 2022, Alabama Gov.

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JURIST

JUNE 12, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the question of whether states can impose schedule-based cash bail on an indigent defendant before allowing their pre-trial release from jail. The lower court ruled in favor of Hester, enjoining the county from imposing cash bail amounts on defendants who could not afford them.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Share In a brief order with no recorded dissents, the Supreme Court refused to block the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, a 57-year-old inmate who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EST on Thursday in Alabama. Alabama was the last state in the United States to permit judicial override in capital cases.

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JULY 30, 2023

“Alabama Is Defying the Supreme Court on Voting Rights; The state’s refusal to comply has been met with a revealing silence on the right”: Adam Serwer has this essay online at The Atlantic.

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DECEMBER 26, 2021

Supreme Court will hear case of Alabama doctor who prescribed powerful opioids”: Amy Yurkanin of Alabama Media Group has this report. “U.S.

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