Consumer Law

"Alabama Supreme Court releases data: Fewer cases, decisions take longer"
The Birmingham News has an interesting article about recent statistics on the caseload at the Alabama Supreme Court.  Click the link for the article entitled  "Alabama Supreme Court releases data: Fewer cases, decisions take longer...

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...

250 years of U.S. Court Decisions online - public.resource.org
. . . a Web site, public.resource.org, which will open up all Supreme Court opinions dating back to the 1700s and all U.S. appeals courts decisions dating back to 1950.

Free Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 and all US Supreme Court decisions since 1754 Coming Soon
Hi Friends,Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.org have gotten together with Ed Walters CEO of FastCase and are happy to announce that they will be putting online an archive of US Appeal Court decisions since 1950 and all of the US...

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...

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

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.