JURIST

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. The case, Allen v.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 to pass HB 385 , which prohibits public libraries from providing materials that are “harmful to minors” or “obscene.” ” The bill, which passed on Thursday, will now go to the Alabama Senate. Earlier this month, t he Idaho Senate approved House Bill No.

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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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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2024

Alabama inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia after the US Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision , declined to intervene in the state’s second attempt to execute an inmate who had previously survived a botched lethal injection.

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JURIST

MAY 22, 2021

The US Department of Justice filed an amended legal complaint Wednesday against Alabama and its Department of Corrections for several alleged violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. In April 2019, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division notified Alabama state attorneys of the prisoner violence and sexual abuse violations.

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JURIST

AUGUST 24, 2024

Department of Justice announced on Friday that Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert pleaded guilty in federal court to the malicious use of an explosive device after detonating a bomb outside the Alabama attorney general’s office in February. Attorney General Merrick B. No one was injured, and nearby buildings sustained no damage.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A US appeals court on Monday rejected a death row inmate’s bid to stop his scheduled November 22 execution by the controversial method of nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama. Amnesty International and other non-profit organizations have called on Alabama to stop the execution and commute Grayson’s sentence.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A federal district court on Monday denied the Alabama Secretary of State’s emergency motion to allow Alabama to hold elections with congressional maps which have been called “racially gerrymandered.” In denying the emergency motion, the three judge panel found “there is no emergency.” ” Allen v.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2024

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill into law Wednesday night shielding in vitro fertilization (IVF) providers from legal liability, moments after it was passed by the legislature. The legislative effort to protect IVF providers from litigation followed criticism resulting from the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling.

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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. Alabama’s attorney general has indicated that the state will appeal the decision.

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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. Additionally, it also prompted individuals to consider moving their frozen embryos out of Alabama to avoid legal complexities.

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JURIST

MAY 24, 2023

Alabama State House Representative Fred Plump Jr. agreed to resign from the Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday as part of a plea deal for federal criminal charges. Alabama Act No. The post Alabama state representative takes plea deal for criminal charges, resigns appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. According to the Alabama execution protocol , the warden or the assistant warden “will pressurize and assess the nitrogen hypoxia system.” The Alabama ACLU said that the Alabama Department of Corrections is not subject to regulation or oversight.

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JURIST

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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) denied Friday Amazon’s effort to limit mail voting in its Alabama union representation election, allowing 6,000 employees to begin voting Monday on whether to unionize.

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MARCH 13, 2025

The preliminary injunction coincides with a federal Alabama court’s decision to deny a respondent’s motion to dismiss an inmate’s case challenging the constitutionality of death by hypoxia. Wilson opted for nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2024

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk , called on Alabama state authorities Tuesday to cancel the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, which is scheduled to take place next week by nitrogen hypoxia. However, a federal judge denied the injunction last week, allowing Alabama to proceed with Smith’s execution.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against the state of Alabama over conditions in state prisons, asserting that Alabama has failed to protect prisoners from violence. The complaint asserts that the “State of Alabama has failed or refused to correct the unconstitutional conditions in Alabama’s prisons for men.”.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The US Supreme Court reinstated Alabama’s new congressional map Monday, which had previously been blocked by a lower court for violating § 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). In a press release, the ACLU of Alabama expressed disappointment over the decision but also noted that the litigation would continue.

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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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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2021

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) announced Friday that it would file Objections and Unfair Labor Practice Charges (ULPs) against Amazon with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the wake of the RWDSU’s unsuccessful union election this year at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, fulfillment center.

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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. The post US Supreme Court allows Alabama execution to proceed despite concerns about intellectual disability appeared first on JURIST - News.

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MARCH 19, 2025

I would therefore grant the stay application and petition for writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment of the Fifth Circuit, and remand for that court to address Mr. Hoffmans RLUIPA claim in the first instance Presently, four states permit execution by nitrogen hypoxia Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Alabama SOS Wes Allen might not have consulted a lawyer about the latest voter purge. The post Alabama Purges Voter Rolls, VRA Be Damned appeared first on Above the Law. But he's definitely going to need one now.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 17, 2024

“Plaintiffs move to dismiss lawsuit that led to Alabama Supreme Court IVF decision; The couple in the final remaining lawsuit over the destruction of embryos at a Mobile facility moved to end the suit last week”: Alander Rocha of Alabama Reflector has this report.

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JURIST

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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The Crime Report

MAY 25, 2021

Department of Justice in an amended complaint says the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) and its leadership continue to fail to protect incarcerated men from physical and sexual violence and death, despite years of warnings from the federal government. Graph courtesy Alabama Political Reporter. Alabama Gov.

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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 28, 2024

The Alabama ruling is painful, and portends uncertainty. The post 5 Things You Should Know About The Alabama Declaration That Embryos Are People appeared first on Above the Law.

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MAY 2, 2024

“IVF and the Alabama Ruling”: The Spring 2024 issue of The New Atlantis contains a series of essays on this topic. Leah Libresco Sargeant has an essay titled “ Embryos as Schrödinger’s Persons: The Alabama IVF ruling reveals peculiar entities that are neither people nor property until we need them to be.”

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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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HowAppealing

MARCH 11, 2021

“No Immunity for Alabama Cop Who Tased Girl in Throes of Seizure; Five years deep into litigation, the 11th Circuit rejected an officer’s move to shield himself from liability for using his taser on an incapacitated 17-year-old”: Izzy Kapnick of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that the U.S.

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JURIST

JUNE 12, 2023

Gentry in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama with the assistance of the Alabama ACLU, Civil Rights Corps and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was held in jail pre-trial due to his inability to afford a $1,000 bail, based on the Alabama bail schedule in the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure.

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JUNE 22, 2024

Alabama inmate Alan Eugene Miller on Friday requested the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama block his scheduled nitrogen gas execution, which would be the second of its kind in US history. Alabama law lets death row inmates choose the method of death either by lethal injection or by nitrogen gas.

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JURIST

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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EvidenceProf Blog

APRIL 27, 2021

Alabama, the Supreme Court held "that mandatory life without parole for those under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on 'cruel and unusual punishments.'" In Miller v. The case that led.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the state’s COVID-19 mask mandate. The post Federal judge dismisses challenge to Alabama COVID-19 mask mandate appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. Thanks for your support! DONATE NOW.

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