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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Alabama Supreme Court

Recent News About Alabama Supreme Court

  • Ala. AG clarifies gambling enforcement

    By Bryan Cohen |
    Strange MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange issued a memorandum Tuesday to law enforcement and district attorneys throughout the state to settle the legal position his office will take when investigating gambling activities.

  • Ala. SC rules against drivers license fees class

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Murphy MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court has granted a former director of the state Department of Public Safety a writ of mandamus directing a circuit court to vacate its judgment against him.

  • Ala. SC won't dismiss county's complaint against J.P. Morgan

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Shaw MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court has declined to review a trial court's decision not to dismiss a case against J.P. Morgan Securities and JPMorgan Chase Bank, among others, for alleged fraud and conspiracy.

  • Ala. SC overturns summary judgment in premature baby case

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Bolin MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court has reversed a court's summary judgment ruling in favor of a pediatric opthalmologist who allegedly wrote incorrect information in an eye exam book about a premature baby's need for follow-up care.

  • Driver ruled at fault for collision with train, $5M verdict overturned

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Bolin MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court has remanded a case against Norfolk Southern railroad in which one of its trains collided with a tractor-trailer carrying logs, severely injuring the driver of the rig.

  • Ala. SC dismisses suit over injuries in Israel

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Justice Glenn Murdock wrote, "The arguments the Kelleys made in this case as to inconvenience and Alabama's door-closing statute fail to undermine the enforceability of the forum-selection clause." MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ordered a lower court to dismiss a couple's action against a Christian travel company.

  • Ala. SC: Trial court asked for 'volunteers' to serve on jury

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Woodall MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court has overturned an $8.5 million verdict against Ford Motor Company.

  • HealthSouth founder loses $2.9B appeal

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Scrushy MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld a $2.9 billion civil verdict against the founder and former CEO of HealthSouth Corp. for accounting fraud.

  • Ala. hospital has immunity in $3.2M case

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Bolin MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court has vacated a $3.2 million wrongful death jury award in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Montgomery-area hospital.

  • Ala. SC transfers toxic exposure case

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Stuart MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court last week granted the petition of a refining and manufacturing company to have its case transferred to another court.

  • Ala. SC changes bingo ruling

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Riley MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court, in an opinion filed last week, threw out the appeals of a St. Clair County sheriff and district attorney and the State of Alabama in a case questioning the legality of electronic bingo games.

  • Election roundup: Contested supreme court seats

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Lanzinger COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Ohio voters elected to keep Supreme Court Justice Judith Lanzinger, a Republican, on the state's high court for another six years.

  • Ala. SC consolidates two of King's AWP lawsuits

    By John O'Brien |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court is allowing lawsuits filed by state Attorney General Troy King against two pharmaceutical companies to be consolidated.

  • King allowed to dismiss DAs' drug-pricing suits

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to grant a notice dismissing the prescription drug-pricing lawsuits filed by five district attorneys, as requested by state Attorney General Troy King.

  • Punitives struck in Ala. case

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Bolin MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court has struck down a punitive damages award against Galaxy Cablevision in a lawsuit involving a minor whose leg was cut by an exposed wire while playing basketball.

  • AG King loses at bingo

    By Nick Rees |
    King MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Alabama Attorney General Troy King is disappointed over a state Supreme Court ruling that allows the governor's Task Force on Illegal Gambling to challenge the legality of electronic bingo within the state.

  • Prominent Ala. attorney among those filing oil spill suits

    By John O'Brien |
    Beasley MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Heavyweight Alabama trial lawyer Jere Beasley is among those filing lawsuits over an explosion and oil spill at an offshore drilling site owned by BP.

  • WLF paper praises Ala. SC decision

    By John O'Brien |
    King WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court's decision to reject three lawsuits against the pharmaceutical industry was a refusal of "regulation through litigation," a Washington Legal Foundation legal opinion paper says.

  • State AGs, supreme courts don't go unnoticed in Hellholes report

    By John O'Brien |
    King WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Several state attorneys general and state supreme courts were put under the microscope by the American Tort Reform Foundation in its annual "Judicial Hellholes" report, released Tuesday.

  • Recent Ala. SC decision should apply to Zyprexa suit, attorneys argue

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Before Eli Lilly & Co. decides to settle Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's Zyprexa lawsuit, it wants a federal judge to take a look at a recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court.