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IVF, in-vitro fertilization Alabama News
Judge dismisses last of three IVF lawsuits that birthed controversial February Supreme Court decision

A district judge on Friday dismissed the last of three in-vitro fertilization (IVF) wrongful death lawsuits in the state that spawned the massively controversial Alabama Supreme Court decision earlier this year.

Alabama Chief Justice-elect Sarah Stewart Alabama News
Chief Justice-elect Sarah Stewart plots judiciary's role in aiding state's Reentry Commission — 'We are trying to get that recidivism rate as low as we can get it'

Newly elected Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Sarah Stewart recently met with the Alabama Joint Reentry Commission, where she announced her plans to use the judicial branch to support the state in reducing recidivism among released prisoners by 50% by 2030.

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Alabama Supreme Court Justice Greg Cook: BPD policy barring officers from pursuing traffic offenders ‘badly misguided’

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Greg Cook said a written policy issued by the Birmingham Police Department barring officers from pursuing fleeing drivers is “badly misguided.”

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SCOTUS denies Mobile clinic’s appeal of Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal by the Center for Reproductive Medicine at Mobile Infirmary of a February ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court.

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Laura Clark: Chief Justice Parker brings the heat on tyranny

The governor may count the main opinion as a win, but the people need to take the reigns from the chief justice and pull the power back. We shall never be assured of two minutes of liberty if we do not.

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Alabama Supreme Court sides with Jackson Hospital, Ivey in COVID-19 liability case; Chief Justice questions governor's use of 'emergency' power in dissent

Members of the Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Montgomery’s Jackson Hospital is immune from a 2020 wrongful death lawsuit brought by a patient’s family.

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Alabama Supreme Court dismisses Twelve25 Sports Bar’s lawsuit against City of Tuscaloosa

Members of the Alabama Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a lawsuit against the City of Tuscaloosa on Friday brought by Twelve25 Sports Bar over an ordinance limiting the number of people inside bars and restaurants.

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Former Supreme Court Justice J. Gorman Houston, Jr. dies at 91

Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice J. Gorman Houston, Jr. passed away last week at the age of 91.

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Alabama Supreme Court upholds rulings on Roy Moore lawsuits

Members of the Alabama Supreme Court upheld previous rulings on litigation involving former Chief Justice Roy Moore on Friday.

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Alabama Supreme Court denies rehearing on Mabel Amos Trust Fund lawsuit

The Supreme Court of Alabama declined on Friday to rehear a lawsuit involving alleged self-dealing among trustees overseeing a scholarship fund for needy children created by former Alabama Secretary of State Mabel Amos.

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Alabama Supreme Court denies rehearing of United Methodist Church lawsuit

The Alabama Supreme Court denied a request from Alabama churches to rehear a disaffiliation lawsuit against the United Methodist Church on Friday.

DEATH PENALTY LETHAL INJECTION PRISON Alabama News
Ivey schedules nitrogen hypoxia execution of man convicted of brutal murder, kidnapping of hitchhiker

Gov. Kay Ivey sent an official order of execution to Alabama Department of Corrections commissioner John Hamm, authorizing the November nitrogen hypoxia execution for Carey Dale Grayson, 49, who kidnapped and murdered a female hitchhiker in 1994, along with several accomplices.

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Montgomery County Circuit Judge Greg Griffin restarts investigation into Mabel Amos Trust Fund

Montgomery County Circuit Judge Greg Griffin appointed James White, a certified public accountant (CPA), as a temporary special fiduciary to audit and investigate the finances of the Mabel Amos Trust Fund on Thursday.

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Alabama Supreme Court sides with Pelham BOE against Helena in property dispute

The Alabama Supreme Court sided 5-3 on Friday with the Pelham Board of Education (PBE) in a property dispute with the city of Helena over a school athletics field project.

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Alabama Supreme Court sides with UA Board in UAB Hospital debt case in 5-4 decision

The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed on Friday the dismissal of a lawsuit initially dismissed in Jefferson County over the size of a lien placed on Lanell Puckett for the medical care she received in UAB Hospital for injuries suffered in a car accident. 

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The Tom Parker Collection: Foundational law volumes started in Alabama, back in Alabama after 259 years

Historic Blackstone volumes from the founding period now housed in Alabama Judicial Building.

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Patients ask court to declare new ‘hastily conceived’ Alabama IVF law unconstitutional

Plaintiffs in a wrongful death in vitro fertilization (IVF) lawsuit that has received national attention in recent months asked the Mobile County Circuit Court to declare a new Alabama IVF provider immunity law unconstitutional this week.

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Alabama Supreme Court ruling ‘catalyst’ for IVF opposition vote Wednesday at Southern Baptist Convention

A February Alabama Supreme Court ruling was the reason why the Southern Baptist Convention will vote on whether to ban in-vitro fertilization, according to Rev. Albert Mohler.

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Alabama Supreme Court stops special investigation into embattled Mabel Amos Trust Fund

The Supreme Court of Alabama canceled a court-ordered investigation by a special master and CPA on Friday into alleged self-dealing among trustees overseeing a scholarship fund for needy children created by former Alabama Secretary of State Mabel Amos.

Thomas Sawyer Alabama News
Alabama Supreme Court to hear wrongful death case of Mobile teen killed in crash

Thomas Randall Sawyer, Jr. was only 16 years old when he was killed in a car crash on March 31, 2018. Now, his death is at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit that has made its way to the Supreme Court of Alabama.

IVF, in-vitro fertilization Alabama News
Alabama Supreme Court denies rehearing request on IVF embryo wrongful death case

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday denied a rehearing request by the Mobile Infirmary Clinic in a wrongful death in-vitro fertilization lawsuit that received national attention in February.

Harvest Alabama News
Pastor Ralph Sigler on Harvest Church’s UMC litigation: ‘With each victory we feel more confident that the law is on our side’

Members of Dothan’s Harvest Church are excited about a recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling involving the church’s litigation against the United Methodist Church, according to pastor Ralph Sigler.

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Dr. Stewart Tankersley: Excess American deaths and the time for COVID reckoning

It is past time for a reckoning of those in charge, and it is up to the Alabama Supreme Court to begin to hold those in leadership accountable.

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State Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Jackson Hospital COVID-19 liability case

Members of the Alabama Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday at Auburn University in a wrongful death case at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery in 2020.

IVF Alabama News
Laura Clark: The overreaction about Alabama IVF

Republicans have a cognitive dissonance regarding IVF. While IVF is a good thing and pro-life in the sense that it does expand human life, unregulated IVF is a danger to life.

Judge gavel Alabama News
Judicial shakeup: Stewart secures nomination for Chief Justice; Anderson wins seat on Court of Criminal Appeals

After Alabama's Super Tuesday primary election, Republican voters made their choice for the next Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and to fill the vacancy on the Court of Criminal Appeals.

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Jennifer Oliver O’Connell: Abortionists are using Alabama’s IVF case to promote their cause

Politicians and legacy media have reduced the decision to a slogan: “Alabama bans IVF.” This is patently dishonest.

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