ABA Journal

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A Birmingham, Alabama, domestic relations judge has been removed from the bench based on findings that she used Facebook aliases to communicate with litigants and…

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Earlier in the litigation, the court ruled that the gerrymandering claim was “justiciable” under the New Mexico Constitution. This is not the only gerrymandering litigation in the US that has arisen before upcoming election cycles. Justiciability refers to the ability of a court to hear an issue.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The case is the newest piece of litigation over tribal sovereignty following the Supreme Court’s McGirt decision, which held that the US Congress had never dissolved the reservations of the so-called “Five-Civilized Tribes,” including the Creek Nation, despite the incorporation of Oklahoma as a state in 1907.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Alabama is still facing a federal lawsuit alleging inhumane conditions in its state-run prisons.

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LegalReader

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

JULY 7, 2022

Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore has lost a defamation lawsuit against the "Borat" star, alleging that Baron Cohen defamed him by making a fake "pedophile detector" beep in his presence.

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Law 360

APRIL 18, 2022

Maynard Cooper & Gale PC has added a litigator with a track record representing companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Target Corp. as a shareholder in its Birmingham, Alabama, office.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I’m going back to the days when I was a litigation paralegal. The case was over, and the partner in charge of that case was also in charge of the firm’s entire litigation department. If you’re reading this and you were a litigation paralegal in the 90s before eDiscovery became mainstream, you know what I’m talking about.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

Recently, litigation has been brought against an Idaho law that banned student ID cards as an adequate form of voter identification. Additionally, the US Supreme Court ordered both Alabama and Louisiana to redraw congressional maps found to politically favor one party over the other.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Supreme Court held that challengers showed a reasonable likelihood of success on their claim that an Alabama Congressional redistricting plan likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Alabama’s congressional map has remained remarkably similar since that litigation. In Allen v. Milligan , 599 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2025

Justice Clarence Thomas was the first of several justices to press Aguinaga and the other advocates about whether the district courts 2022 ruling, known as the Robinson litigation, was a sound one, so that the state was justified in relying on it to create a second majority-Black district. Aguinaga insisted that it was.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In another recently settled suit, 3M will pay nearly $100 million to Alabama residents.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In 1968, Congress transferred the federal government’s trust responsibility for the Pueblo to the state of Texas, following a similar action it had taken in 1954 for a much larger reservation held by the Alabama-Coushatta in East Texas. Three provisions of the Restoration Act are relevant.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 20, 2023

The City of Valley had earlier imprisoned an 82-year-old woman who had forgotten to pay her past-due garbage collection bill of $77.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The justices weighed the inmates’ religious rights against the state’s concerns about security and its desire to have the execution proceed smoothly, as well as their own worries about the prospect of endless last-minute litigation by inmates facing execution.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The action against North Carolina is not the only ongoing voting rights litigation in the country. Rights groups have recently challenged redistricting maps in Georgia , Tennessee , North Dakota , Louisiana , Alabama , and South Carolina.

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LegalReader

APRIL 21, 2022

Drug distributor McKesson and manufacturers reach a deal with the state.

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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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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that a single inspector in the Etowah County in the sheriff's office has been involved in the arrests of dozens of women suspected of doing drugs while pregnant.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 19, 2021

has agreed to pay out about $99 million to end litigation and negotiations related to claims one of its largest manufacturing plants has been discharging hazardous and solid waste containing cancer-linked chemicals, known as PFAS, into the Tennessee River in Alabama, the company announced Tuesday.

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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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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Sexual harassment lawyers will not only fight to protect an employee’s rights, but they are here to help you understand the different ways you can address a workplace issue.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

Milligan , in which the justices allowed Alabama to implement a redistricting plan that a lower court said likely violates the Voting Rights Act. He was referring to Merrill v. The Pennsylvania case. 7, a report recommending both a redistricting plan and any revisions to the election schedule that would be required.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Tom asked me why would a radio station in Alabama get this notice – shouldn’t their payments to SoundExchange take care of the royalties that they owe for their streaming? And just out of curiosity for that station in Alabama, what would it have to pay for the public performance of sound recordings in Canada?

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 13, 2021

However, the judge did instruct the Justice Department to be more specific in its claims against the state.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 14, 2022

For example, if OSU sued The Alabama University at Birmingham for its use of THE, that would seemingly be frivolous litigation since the mark is patently unlikely to create consumer confusion. In my mind, the registration could only become problematic if OSU polices its trademark rights in an overly aggressive matter.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The particular case involves a statute that governs two of three Native American tribes that remain in the state of Texas, the petitioner Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (a tiny reservation near El Paso) and the much larger Alabama-Coushatta reservation in East Texas. It has not produced any great flood of litigation or difficulty.

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Above The Law

MAY 7, 2021

Courthouse News ] * Devin Nunes's attorney has been ordered to pay CNN $21,000 in legal fees for filing frivolous defamation litigation. [ Those attorneys must be fast typers. Newsweek ] * Check out this article on a law grad who has netted $83,000 a year as an underwear model on OnlyFans. [

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Litigants in federal courts may unwittingly find themselves in a “finality trap,” a tricky procedural scenario in which they are unable to appeal some of their claims. But litigation moves slowly, and a district court might rule on some claims before others – for example, by ruling for the defendant on some but not all of the claims.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. opening briefs Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson agreed with the court’s decision not to put the 5th Circuit’s ruling on hold, but she wrote separately (although alone) to stress that the Supreme Court’s decision not to step in was not an endorsement of the appeals courts’ order, and that the litigation should be resolved in time for the 2024 elections.

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Connor Reporting

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Whether your complex case is in the area of bankruptcy, intellectual property, antitrust, construction defect, class action, international trade, business litigation or any other area of complex litigation — there are key tools that can set your case up for success.

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CARET Legal

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This complexity is further magnified by the fact that approximately 80% of civil litigation in the United States involves liability insurance, introducing multiple layers of issues beyond those explicitly stated in legal pleadings. Hudgens, 533 So.2d 2d 194, 198 (Ala.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Trustee program and six judicial districts in North Carolina and Alabama under the Bankruptcy Administrator program. The Constitution’s bankruptcy clause gives Congress the power to “establish … uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.” However, two distinct programs govern U.S. Impax Laboratories, Inc.

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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). New York , No. 20- 449 (U.S.

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