Appellate Law

Excellent Resource For Alabama Supreme Court Decisions
The Alabama Appellate Watch is an excellent blog by Lightfoot, Franklin and White, LLC. The Appellate Watch blog focuses on the decisions normally released every Friday by the Alabama Supreme Court and the Court of Civil Appeals...

The Supreme Court and Docket Control
Perfect timing! I was going to write a post this morning about the Supreme Court's docket, and then Linda Greenhouse writes a story in today's New York Times about the decreasing frequency of 5-4 decisions in the Supreme Court and possible explanations for this decrease...

Case Law Development: Alabama Supreme Court Clarifies Change of Custody Standard
The Alabama Supreme Court has reversed two of its previous decisions regarding the standard for change of child custody, emphasizing that the standard under Alabama law requires a party seeking a change in custody to show that the change "will...

Alabama's Pick & Choose Judicial Candidates Defeated
"Four Republican candidates for the Alabama Supreme Court who claimed they could pick and choose which U.S. Supreme Court decisions they would follow?and said they were free to defy the rest?were defeated in Tuesday?s primary election...

Alabama Supreme Court Stays Controversial Execution
"Court Votes to Postpone an Execution in Alabama," is the New York Times report. Thomas Arthur, a death-row inmate in Alabama, was granted a last-minute reprieve by the State Supreme Court on Wednesday evening after another convict confessed to the...

LAWWIRE: FEB 21, 2008 SUPREME COURT OF KENTUCKY DECISIONS (Vol. 2008:09)
FEB 21, 2008 SUPREME COURT OF KENTUCKY DECISIONS (Vol. 2008:09) HTML Version of the LawWire - PUBLISHED and NonPUBLISHED decisions. PDF Version. MINUTES from AOC for this week (from AOC Web Site) Decisions no...

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Health Insurers
Dictating Medical Decisions

Alabama Restaurant Association Hires Legal Council to Help Members Damaged by BP Oil Spill
Alabama Restaurant Association Hires Legal Council to Help Members Damaged by BP Oil Spill>

Alabama Suzuki Dealer
Faces Class Action

Salmonella Found in Tomotoes
57 Reported Cases in New Mexico and Texas

ConAgra Peanut Butter
Hundreds of Salmonella Cases Settled

T-mobile data plans, T-mobile, t-mobile phones
T-Mobile Faces Class Action over Limited Unlimited Data Plans