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9 May 2016, 12:55 pm
— Common threads link the current effort to remove Roy Moore as Alabama’s chief justice with the case that resulted in his ouster from the same post more than a decade ago: Particularly, his conservative Christian beliefs and his views on the power of federal courts. [read post]
8 Nov 2012, 8:42 am
In Alabama, voters inexplicably chose disgraced jurist Roy Moore as their new chief justice! [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 6:52 am
[JURIST] Alabama Attorney General Troy King [official website] on Thursday filed a lawsuit against BP for damages to the state's coast and economy, claiming that the oil giant has failed in its efforts to accept responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 8:56 am
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Wednesday asking Alabama to loosen the discriminatory burdens resulting from their voter photo identification law. [read post]
6 Aug 2004, 2:51 am
Alabama has executed a 74-year-old inmate after the US Supreme Court and the state governor refused to block the execution. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 8:01 am
[JURIST] The Alabama House of Representatives [official website] voted 69-19 [roll call] Thursday to approve a bill [HB 18, PDF] that would ban abortion [JURIST news archive] after 20 weeks of gestation, except in cases where the mother's life is at risk or she faces serious injury. [read post]
7 May 2016, 9:17 am
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore [official website] was suspended Friday after being charged with violating ethical rules. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 5:21 am
Alabama's Department of Education is considering changing the way funds are distributed to schools throughout the state. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 7:23 pm
The Alabama Senate [official website] approved a bill [SB 237 materials] that would create a commission to review claims of innocence by death row inmates. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 5:01 am
[JURIST] After same-sex couples were turned away from some marriage license offices in Alabama Monday, attorneys sought a declaration from a federal judge on Tuesday to order local officials to issue the marriage licenses. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 7:41 am
[JURIST] The Alabama Senate [official website] on Thursday approved a bill [HB494, PDF] that requires a parent or guardian's approval before a minor can have abortion. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 7:39 pm
The University of South Alabama has settled a lawsuit with a former football program employee who accused the school’s strength and conditioning coach of using a racial slur against him. [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 9:08 am
[JURIST] Judge Callie Granade of the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama [official website] on Monday refused to stay [order] her order to a probate judge that he must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 7:35 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] on Thursday heard arguments in a challenge to illegal immigration legislation recently passed in Alabama and Georgia, but the three-judge panel chose to defer its ruling until after the US Supreme Court [official website] rules on a pending challenge to the controversial Arizona immigration law [JURIST news archives]. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 8:32 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Wednesday requested, as part of their ongoing suit [press release] against the bill, that a federal judge block an Alabama law allowing fetuses legal representation in cases when minors seek abortions. [read post]
10 May 2012, 6:34 am
Micky Hammon, R-Decatur proposed changes to Alabama's immigration law HB 56. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 9:58 am
[JURIST] The Alabama Senate and House of Representatives [official websites] on Thursday approved a bill [HB 18 text, PDF] that would ban abortions [JURIST news archive] after 20 weeks of pregnancy. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 8:52 am
Citizens in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana [complaints, PDF] filed [press release] lawsuits on Tuesday against their respective states for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act [text, PDF] through the drawing of the congressional districts. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 7:14 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Monday filed a brief [text, PDF] in the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] urging the court to strike down Alabama's immigration law [HB 56 text]. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 8:27 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] struck down [opinion, PDF] several provisions of Alabama's controversial immigration law [HB 56, PDF] on Monday while upholding a few sections of the law. [read post]
