Alabama Constitutional Law Legal 
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. This was not just a “let’s try to give back to the community and show up occasionally for legal aid Saturdays.” You will learn so much!
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 7, 2022
Alito described the independent-state-legislature theory as “an exceptionally important and recurring question of constitutional law,” and he suggested that the justices “will have to resolve this question sooner or later, and the sooner we do so, the better.” He was referring to Merrill v. The Pennsylvania case.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
MARCH 10, 2022
In 1987, following years of negotiation and drafting, the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas secured restoration of their trust relationships with the federal government through the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act (Restoration Act).
JonathanTurley
MARCH 21, 2021
Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. seven times. The Montgomery Public Safety commissioner, L. He was awarded $500,000 — a huge judgment for the time.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 13, 2022
In Harlan’s case, the story arc that first attracted me was the notion of posthumous vindication – how a man who went so far out on a limb in his time could land so comfortably in the mainstream of legal thought. Much of Holmes’ reputation rests on his role in First Amendment law, for instance, an area where Harlan’s legacy is negligible.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 25, 2024
Today, the state of Alabama will try again to kill Kenneth Eugene Smith. Everything about the case has been legally irregular in the effort to execute this convicted assassin. His appeals finally ran out in November 2022 and Alabama attempted to execute him. That was then overruled by the judge who sentenced him to death.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 16, 2021
Last week, a federal court did something that would seem not just counterintuitive but impossible under our legal system: it upheld an agency order despite the clear lack of authority to issue it. The order – to renew a moratorium on evictions – is a constitutional zombie that is neither alive nor dead. Yet it still walks the land.
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