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A new low for the Alabama Supreme Court: A most unethical appointment

Mike Hubbard is going to get away with it.  Or, at least, he’s going to get away with some of it. The Alabama Supreme Court is going to step in and overrule a jury that acted intelligently and applied the law properly, and it’s going to toss some of the former Alabama House speaker’s felony … Continued
December 3, 2019

Alabama Supreme Court rules against Birmingham, upholds Memorial Preservation Act

Wednesday, the Alabama Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the State of Alabama and upheld the state’s Memorial Preservation Act. The state had sued the City of Birmingham after the City had erected a plywood barrier around the monument honoring the soldiers and sailors who fought for the Confederate States of American during the … Continued
November 28, 2019

Judge orders charter school principal back on the payroll

A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge on Friday ordered that a charter school resume the salary and benefits of a fired principal — at least until a ruling is issued in the principal’s wrongful termination lawsuit.  Nicole Ivey-Price, who was fired from LEAD Academy in October, was granted a temporary restraining order by Judge Jimmy … Continued
November 25, 2019

Former Montgomery cop convicted in shooting of unarmed black man

A former Montgomery Police officer was convicted on Friday of manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed black man in 2016.  Aaron Cody Smith is facing a sentence of between 10 and 20 years for shooting and killing Greg Gunn just steps from the home Gunn shared with his mother. Prosecutors had charged Smith … Continued
November 25, 2019

Moore sues Democratic PACs for their role in the 2017 election

Former chief justice and current Senate candidate Roy Moore filed suit against two Democratic PACs, their vendors, and the chairman of one of the PACs for defamation, defamation by implication, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and collaborating to create an elaborate disinformation campaign against him in the 2017 special election for U.S. Senate. In … Continued
November 18, 2019

Gov. Ivey awards grants for law enforcement training

Gov. Kay Ivey has awarded $225,000 in grant funding to provide training for law enforcement agencies across the state. A $125,000 grant will be used by Jacksonville State University’s Center for Applied Forensics to provide forensics training and evidence collection kits for police officers and sheriff’s deputies from small- to medium-sized departments. Auburn University at … Continued
November 18, 2019

Twenty Alabama prisoners killed this year

Thursday, Alabamians for Fair Justice released a statement critical of Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn’s tenure in charge of the state’s prisons. “Under Commissioner Dunn’s leadership, Alabama’s prison system is in a constitutional crisis,” the activist group claimed. “There have been at least 20 verified deaths due to homicide, suicide or overdose in … Continued
November 15, 2019

45 years later, man sentenced to life at 16-years-old seeks parole

Faith communities, prisoners’ rights groups, friends and family of man sentenced to life at 16-years-old are advocating for his parole to be approved after spending over 45 years in prison.  Andre Legay Wallace was convicted of murder, robbery, rape and mayhem in 1974. He was then sentenced to concurrent terms of life in prison for … Continued
November 14, 2019
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Foundation for Moral Law defends Little Sisters of the Poor from Obamacare mandate

The Foundation for Moral Law filed a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Catholic nuns against an Obamacare mandate that they say violates their freedom to express their religious beliefs. The Little Sisters of the Poor have been battling Obamacare for years. The Catholic nuns argue that their religious freedoms have been violated by … Continued
November 8, 2019