JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Alabama Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that puts a politically-appointed board in charge of the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH), as well as a bill that makes it easier for municipalities to fire members of a local library’s board of directors. One of the speakers was Delores R.

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2023

Governor of Alabama Kay Ivey approved a new congressional map Friday, passed by the Alabama legislature during a special session , which designates only one majority-Black district in the state. ” Former US Attorney General Eric H. The approval is in defiance of the US Supreme Court ruling in Allen v. Holder, Jr.,

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Milligan to determine whether Alabama’s 2021 redistricting plan for the US House of Representatives violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Under the new map, even though Black voters account for 27 percent of Alabama’s population , they would likely only elect 14 percent of the state’s representatives to the US House.

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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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HowAppealing

JUNE 14, 2024

“Alabama Law Review: A Tribute to Twenty Years on the Bench — Chief Judge William H. With contributions by Justice Thomas, Attorney General Sessions, and many Pryor clerks/mentees who became judges.” ” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” linking to the individual contributions.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

” Local newspaper publisher Sherry Digmon and reporter Don Fletcher were arrested in Atmore, Alabama on October 27 and accused of revealing information about a grand jury investigation related to the Escambia County School Board. ” Abuse of grand jury information is a felony under Alabama law.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Attorneys general in 40 states Monday announced a $391.5 While the settlement ends the present lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a new lawsuit against Google last month for allegedly collecting biometric data on millions of Texans without their informed consent. The post Google reaches $391.5M

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 21, 2021

A lawyer in Mobile, Alabama, has been held in contempt after her process server delivered a subpoena to a criminal defense attorney in front of…

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LegalReader

AUGUST 12, 2022

A Chapter 13 bankruptcy in Alabama is a legitimate option, but the attorney fee is often higher than Chapter 7 bankruptcy and there are also trustee fees to consider.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“The justice department is committed to fully enforcing our federal civil rights laws to address the legacy of environmental injustice that we face across the country,” Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for the justice department’s civil rights division.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Alabama Reflector ] * In an entirely predictable turn of events, attorney working on anti-Trans rights Supreme Court case tied to racist social media posts. * Justice Kagan points out that issuing opaque, from the hip, ideologically motivated opinions results in terrible work. Reuters ] * Womble Bond merging with Lewis Roca. [

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“WPATH, ‘Transgender Healthcare’ and the Supreme Court; The group’s so-called Standards of Care are an attempt to stack the deck by concealing rather than exploring the evidence”: Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 10, 2022

A federal judge in Alabama approved a $2.67 million in attorney fees Tuesday in an antitrust class action against Blue Cross… billion settlement and $626.6

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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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LegalReader

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Alabama prisons have attracted heavy criticism for understaffing, which attorneys have identified as a key driver of violence and suicide behind bars.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

As my Uncle Bobby Wayne of Alabama once observed of a talking head on TV, “I see he’s mashing his lips together, but I can’t make out a word he’s sayin’ — and I’m sure he don’t know, either.” This keeps your brain in sync with your mouth. Their brain is way out ahead of their lips.

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Law 360

MAY 25, 2022

Maynard Cooper & Gale PC has added five attorneys across offices in Alabama and Florida, including a shareholder specializing in tax, estate planning and business planning, two of counsel, an attorney and an associate, according to an announcement Wednesday.

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Law 360

JANUARY 14, 2022

Catch up this week with a look at how the pandemic led the DOL to recover the lowest amount of back wages for workers in a decade, how some attorneys think the EEOC will be ramping up enforcement this year, and how an NLRB official's order that a union representation election at an Amazon facility in Alabama be rerun raises questions about remedies (..)

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

More than 400 incarcerated people in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections were scheduled to be released into the supervision of the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 4, 2023

This attorney got caught committing serial wire fraud. Alabama has that covered. Alito Seems To Think The Supreme Court Is Above The Law: Thankfully, Kagan is a voice of reason. Will The Real Harmed Parties Please Stand Up?: Firms Need More Than Brotherly Love: An historic Philly firm is shutting its doors.

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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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LegalReader

JULY 6, 2022

Alternatively, you can work with your criminal defense attorney to arrange a voluntary surrender.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Or “self-driving car” in “Alabama”? The post How Lawyers Should Market Themselves: An Interview With Joe Pulizzi, Godfather of Content Marketing appeared first on Attorney at Work. If you are talking about what do to if you’re in a car accident, I’m thinking that your content area is not specialized enough. Even better, right?

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HowAppealing

JUNE 11, 2022

.” And Nina Pullano of Courthouse News Service has a report headlined “ Still smarting from Sacha Baron Cohen joke, Roy Moore antagonizes appeals court; An attorney for the ex-Alabama judge told the Second Circuit that it is ‘worse than calling someone a murderer’ to brand him as a pedophile.”

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For example, she met: A 23-year-old man in Decatur, Alabama, who exclaimed, “I really love grammar.” Subscribe to Attorney at Work. The post The Heyday of Grammar: You’re Not Hardcore Unless You Live Hardcore appeared first on Attorney at Work. A man in Memphis who proclaimed, “We’re a grammar family.”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The partner tells me that the DC partner was the head of the firm’s pro bono department, and I’d be the lead litigation paralegal on a case involving a civil rights violation in Alabama prisons. That firm had an entire pro bono department where those attorneys only worked on pro bono cases. You won’t know until you ask.

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The Crime Report

MAY 13, 2022

million program announced recently by Attorney General Merrick Garland has big ambitions, including prosecuting polluters who cause environmental harm to communities of color, the New York Times reports. But advocates admit there are a ‘lot of questions about how it will operate.”

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MAY 21, 2021

Over the 10-year period, states relatively stayed the same with how many preemptions they had enacted, with 31 states having 44 measures in effect, while other states like Arizona and Alabama had 47 preemption measures in place. The study did discover a dramatic increase in one state policy — punitive preemption measures.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 28, 2021

Carroll of the University of Alabama School of Law. About four dozen of those defendants are in custody, and some of their attorneys have said they will spend more time in jail before trial than they will receive if convicted and sentenced. Some 582 people were detained awaiting trial in D.C. 6 Capitol riot. Of these cases, U.S.

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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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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But in briefs filed at the Supreme Court, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton countered that “prisons have a compelling interest in maintaining an orderly, safe, and effective process when carrying out an irrevocable, and emotionally charged, procedure.”.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Although challenges to the Corporate Transparency Act abound — as highlighted by recent federal court decisions from Alabama and Oregon taking opposite positions on its constitutionality — the act is still law, so companies should comply with their filing requirements or face the potential consequences, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

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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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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Alabama State Bar Formal Opinion 2008-03 – Lawyers’ Trust Account Obligations With Regard to Retainers and Set Fees State Bar of Arizona Ethics Opinion 10-03 – Fees; Fee Agreement; Non-Refundable Fees; Flat Fees State Bar of Georgia Formal Advisory Opinion No. 91-2 & Formal Advisory Opinion No.

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Law 360

JANUARY 5, 2023

Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has expanded its corporate services, adding an attorney with more than 20 years of experience to the firm's Birmingham, Alabama, office.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. Guide & File is designed for parties who are not represented by an attorney at: [link] These services are being rolled out statewide.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

Moreover, of the 20 states analyzed, only Alabama, Pennsylvania and Indiana had reliable data available on “indigent” defendants, otherwise known as individuals who need aid because they don’t have the means to hire a private attorney.

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