Alabama Attorney Court Decisions Statute 
The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 14, 2025
Publication of truthful information on matters of public significance cannot be punished unless it involves a state interest of the highest order," Bruce Rosen, an attorney representing the two journalists, wrote in a July 11 motion to dismiss the charges. Violators, who are classified as "disorderly person[s]," face fines up to $200.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 6, 2025
In 1993, William Neilly was sentenced in Michigan state court to life without the possibility of parole for a homicide he committed as a juvenile. Because of intervening Supreme Court decisions prohibiting the imposition of no-parole life sentences for juvenile offenders, he was resentenced to a lesser sentence.
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At the Lectern
AUGUST 6, 2024
Supreme Court the chance to disapprove the California Supreme Court decision in Adolph v. Supreme Court had misinterpreted California law about the viability of representative actions under the Labor Code’s Private Attorneys General Act when representatives’ individual claims are being arbitrated (see here ).
The Crime Report
JUNE 27, 2022
State governments are already responding to the Dobbs decision with new regulations banning abortion or working to reinforce protections for people seeking abortions in their states across state lines. Alabama’s Attorney General was granted an emergency motion to dissolve an injunction against the law on Friday afternoon.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Boynton’s victory inspired civil rights activists, known as the Freedom Riders, to travel on interstate buses in the South to test the Supreme Court’s ruling. Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment.
LegalTalkNetwork
JULY 10, 2024
This decision overturned a fundamental 1984 precedent known as Chevron v. The Chevron ruling mandated that courts defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of unclear statutes. In recent years, the Chevron ruling has been losing support at the Supreme Court, with several justices attacking it.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
AUGUST 4, 2021
After the developers terminated the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 16, 2021 dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an appeal of the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction barring work on the pipeline.
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