Alabama Court Decisions Court Rules 
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. The approval is in defiance of the US Supreme Court ruling in Allen v. percent of the state’s population. Holder, Jr.,
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. The lower court ruled in favor of Hester, enjoining the county from imposing cash bail amounts on defendants who could not afford them.
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JURIST
MARCH 23, 2022
The Court’s action today is unprecedented. In an emergency posture, the Court summarily overturns a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision resolving a conflict over the State’s redistricting, a decision rendered after a 5-month process involving all interested stakeholders.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 24, 2025
Several of the courts conservative justices expressed skepticism about the map and about whether the 2022 ruling on which Louisiana relied to justify the creation of a second majority-Black district in the state was actually correct, but it was unclear whether those concerns would be enough to uphold the lower courts ruling.
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
The decision follows multiple previous precedents set by the Court over the past decade that sharply limited courts’ ability to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without parole, the lawyers wrote. In Miller v. Four years later, in Montgomery v.
Intelligize Blog
MARCH 14, 2024
A constitutional ruling by an Alabama judicial body has the rest of the country wondering about its potentially widespread implications. We’re not talking about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through IVF are children , but another recent decision. Sound familiar?
JURIST
JUNE 15, 2023
The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the US Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar the prosecution from retrying a criminal defendant if it is determined that the original trial venue was improper. The court, however, disagreed. In Smith v.
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