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30 Jun 2008, 5:40 am
Cristina Rodriguez (New York University - School of Law) has posted From Litigation, Legislation: A Review of Brian Landsberg's Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Right Act (Yale Law Journal, Vol. 117, 2008) on SSRN. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 9:21 pm
From Litigation, Legislation: A Review of Brian Landsberg's Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Right Act, is a new book review by Cristina Rodriguez of the New York University Law School, published in the Yale Law Journal, Vol. 117 (2008). [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 2:45 pm
No. 101-650, 104 Stat. 5089 (1990), Congress extended the deadline for North Carolina and Alabama to implement the program to October 1, 2002, without any corresponding explanation for the special treatment. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 2:59 am
Alabama has a rule-of-law Supreme Court majority and the legislature has enacted significant legislative liability reforms. [read post]
19 Jun 2008, 2:47 pm
Unlike some county governments, the state was certain to maintain a white majority of legislators. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 2:51 am
In Alabama's Changing Backlog Of Unprocessed Rape Kits posted at abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigzag journey into the open, I discuss the delay in processing rape kits and how recent improvements may be undone by state budget troubles. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 8:50 pm
This appears to be consistent with the intent of the legislation to increase executive accountability. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 7:48 pm
"  The same 11th Circuit divide quickly emerged in Williams, litigation over an Alabama law prohibiting distribution or sale of sexual devices, the majority finding the state's public morality concerns sufficient to meet a rational basis test. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 5:19 pm
The complex, subtle, and professional decisions as to the composition, training, equipping and control of a military force are essentially professional military judgments, subject always to civilian control of the Legislative and Executive Branches. [read post]
8 Jun 2008, 6:52 pm
Alabama: "That every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 6:35 am
The reason I can't answer it is that I don't know how legislators from other Alabama jurisdictions felt about this issue with respect to their own jurisdictions. [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 1:22 pm
(That's why, for example, the Alabama House has "county legislation committees" made up of local legislators to pass local bills). [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 7:31 am
(Some of you may remember Jerome's tour de force discussion of offender reenfranchisement legislation and political deals in Alabama at the 2003 Yale Law School reunion.) [read post]
30 May 2008, 4:50 am
The state court had declared that the state legislature could not enact "special legislation" authorizing elections to fill vacated commission seats only in Mobile County: Instead, the court held that the state legislature would have to authorize such elections for every county in Alabama (which, indeed, the state legislature later did). [read post]
29 May 2008, 3:52 pm
I was concerned because a state's  governor and some legislators do not have the power to pass such legislation alone. [read post]
21 May 2008, 6:32 am
(if one can be serious about this crap), Alabama ranks 41st among the states for per capita spending on mental health and that's for humans. [read post]
20 May 2008, 7:47 am
  The legislation was seen as necessary, as residents of the Alabama coast have found it difficult to obtain homeowners’ insurance since hurricanes Ivan and Katrina hit the area several years ago. [read post]
20 May 2008, 7:26 am
The Birmingham News reports: A proposed ban on the shuffling of money between political action committees died on the final night of the legislative session. [read post]