Alabama Court Court Decisions 
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. Mobile Infirmary Clinic, Inc. which classified frozen embryos as children.
JURIST
JUNE 12, 2023
The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the question of whether states can impose schedule-based cash bail on an indigent defendant before allowing their pre-trial release from jail. 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
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.
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. But the court held that “the mere burden of a second trial has never justified an exemption from the retrial rule.”
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Milligan is a case about whether Alabama’s 2021 redistricting plan for the state’s U.S. A lower court decided that the maps did violate Section 2. “Yet, that is what Alabama has been commanded to do here: redraw its districts to subordinate traditional districting principles to race.”
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. But the majority of the court unraveled this holding.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Alabama’s request to allow it to use a congressional map in the 2024 elections that a lower court had concluded likely violates the Voting Rights Act. In June of this year, a divided Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s decision in favor of the challengers.
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