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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice J. Gorman Houston, Jr. passed away last week at the age of 91.
Members of the Alabama Supreme Court upheld previous rulings on litigation involving former Chief Justice Roy Moore on Friday.
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.
The Alabama Supreme Court denied a request from Alabama churches to rehear a disaffiliation lawsuit against the United Methodist Church on Friday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Historic Blackstone volumes from the founding period now housed in Alabama Judicial Building.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Politicians and legacy media have reduced the decision to a slogan: “Alabama bans IVF.” This is patently dishonest.
On Thursday, Bryan Taylor, a candidate for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, called on his opponent, Justice Sarah Stewart, to recuse herself from future rulings on the IVF case because her campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from PACs the plaintiff's lawyers have donated to heavily.