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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.