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AG Announces Law to Regulate and Limit Use of Contingency Fees in State Litigation

Staff Report From the office of Attorney General Luther Strange (MONTGOMERY)–Attorney General Luther Strange lauded the passage of legislation to provide transparency and limitations on state contracts with private attorneys, with the final approval of a bill modeled upon national standards for greater openness and better protection of the public interest.  Particularly, the bill sets … Continued
May 22, 2013

Strange Set to Investigate Claims that IRS was Used to Target Alabama Groups

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Multiple media sources including the cable news site FoxNews and the website al.com are reporting that Alabama residents are among the persons who were wrongfully targeted by U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The IRS subsequently has apologized for a pattern of abuse that apparently started in 2010 and ran until … Continued
May 16, 2013

AG announces third former trooper felony conviction

Staff Report MONTGOMERY –Attorney General Luther Strange announced a felony theft conviction today of a third former Alabama state trooper for using a state credit card to purchase gasoline for his personal use.  Kenneth Grissett, 52, of Tuscaloosa, had been stationed at the Tuscaloosa office of the Alabama Department of Public Safety. Grissett pleaded guilty … Continued
May 10, 2013

AG Announces Senate Committee Approves Felony

Staff Report MONTGOMERY—Attorney General Luther Strange announced that the Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics and Elections Committee of the Alabama Senate has approved Senate Bill 446, legislation advocated by the Attorney General to fight illegal gambling. “I am pleased that this Senate committee has taken action on our recommendations to make Alabama’s gambling laws stronger and … Continued
April 18, 2013

AG Announces Arrest of Former State House Employee for Failing to File Tax Returns and Pay Income Taxes

Staff Report (MONTGOMERY) –Attorney General Luther Strange announced the arrest yesterday of William Clay Covington, a former employee of the Alabama House of Representatives, for failure to file income tax returns and failure to pay income taxes. Covington, 41, surrendered yesterday afternoon to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. Attorney General Strange’s Special Prosecutions Division presented … Continued
April 11, 2013

Strange Joins National Effort Supporting a Broader Religious Exception to Obamacare Mandate

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange (R) has joined a national effort by conservative states to convince the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to adopt broader religious exceptions to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that all businesses and non-profit organizations (including religiously affiliated non-profits) … Continued
March 28, 2013

Attorney General’s Office Files Motion of Recusal for Judge Young

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter SHORTER—The sorted case that has become Luther Strange verses VictoryLand just keeps getting more unusual. Last Friday around 5:00 p.m., the State ABC Board announced final approval for a expanded liquor license for Milton McGregor’s VictoryLand. According to a report in the Montgomery Advertiser, the ABC Board said, “‘after … Continued
March 5, 2013

Alabama Supreme Court Issues VictoryLand Opinion

Staff Report From the Office of Attorney General Luther Strange (MONTGOMERY)— The Supreme Court of Alabama today issued a 46-page opinion explaining why Judge Tom Young of the Macon County Circuit Court was wrong to deny the State’s application for a search warrant to search and seize the gambling devices and gambling proceeds at the … Continued
March 1, 2013

Supreme Court Hears Shelby County Challenge of Voting Rights Act

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter 1965 in Alabama was a very different place. Whites used a complex system of poll taxes, literacy tests, threats, and sometimes actual violence to keep the Black minority from exercising their right to vote. The state legislature of the day was literally all White. Whites even represented majority black … Continued
March 1, 2013

No Justice, No Peace: Ford Wants Day In Court

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter TUSKEGEE— “It should be clear now to everyone, that the citizens of the majority black Macon County cannot get justice in the State of Alabama.” These are the words of legendary Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford. The Mayor has been the most vocal opposition to the closing of VictoryLand in … Continued
February 25, 2013