Attorney General Steve Marshall
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has led a 23-state brief in support of Florida’s appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Doe v. Surgeon General, State of Florida. Marshall urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse the district court’s injunction on Florida’s law that places restrictions on sex-change procedures and prohibits administering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to minors for gender transition purposes. This action follows Marshall's leadership of a 22-state coalition two months prior, asking the Court of Appeals to allow Florida to...
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(Montgomery, Ala.) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general in demanding answers from the nation’s top asset managers to determine if they are neglecting their fiduciary duty to their clients. The letter sent to 25 of the nation’s top asset managers raises concerns that the asset managers may be violating their fiduciary duties to their clients by supporting environmental shareholder proposals recommended by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which were flagged by the environmental activist group Ceres. Because it does not...
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that a bipartisan coalition of 35 states has reached a settlement with Delaware, concluding the outstanding damages phase of an unclaimed property dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of the multi-state coalition, determining that unclaimed official checks issued by MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc. are governed by the Federal Disposition Act. As a result, states including Arkansas, Pennsylvania, California, Texas, Wisconsin, and others will receive over $190 million...
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Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the conviction of Dana Wesley Coffelt, a 47-year-old resident of Huntsville, for possession of child pornography. Coffelt pleaded guilty in Madison County Circuit Court to three counts of possession of obscene matter depicting a person under the age of 17.
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Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that former Houston County Assistant District Attorney Mark Johnson was found guilty on ethics charges after a Houston County jury returned six guilty verdicts Thursday afternoon. As a result of his six felony convictions, Johnson has been taken into custody.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined a coalition of 27 states in an amicus brief, requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to limit the Biden administration’s "Frame or Receiver" firearms rule. Issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2022, the rule expanded its definition of “firearm” to include certain weapon parts kits that can be converted into firearms, as well as partially complete, disassembled, or nonfunctional frames or receivers.
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Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that temporary restraining orders (TROs) have been obtained against five illegal gambling facilities in Selma, Alabama. According to the TROs, these facilities must cease all operations, and the property cannot be used or accessed. Additionally, there can be no further financial transactions connected with these facilities or their operators until further orders from the Circuit Court of Dallas County.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has filed a 24-state brief before the U.S. Supreme Court defending election integrity in Arizona. The case, Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, involves federal courts enjoining an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship for anyone registering to vote in state or presidential elections. The RNC and members of the Arizona legislature intervened when it became clear that Arizona’s Attorney General would not defend the law's enforcement for this election cycle. The emergency applicants have asked the Supreme Court to...
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Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the capital murder conviction of Lonterry Orlando Harrison, 23, from Gadsden. Harrison was originally convicted in the Etowah County Circuit Court on October 24, 2022.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has filed a 26-state amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision that the Constitution prohibits states from restricting girls’ sports teams to biological females. The case originates from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in June that Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act likely violates the Equal Protection Clause by not allowing biological males who identify as women to compete on sports teams reserved for women or girls. Marshall is also requesting the Court to hear a similar dispute...
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined a coalition of 16 states in filing a lawsuit to prevent the Biden-Harris administration from extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) benefits to undocumented immigrants. The policy, scheduled to take effect on November 1, would make over 200,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients eligible for taxpayer-subsidized health plans, including 3,460 individuals in Alabama.
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Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the indictment of a Florence man on four counts of capital murder. Travis Eric Fallows, 35, was served with the indictment on Wednesday and is being held without bail pending the resolution of this case.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the State of Alabama has settled a lawsuit, allowing the execution of convicted murderer Alan Miller to proceed as scheduled in September. Miller had challenged the method of execution, which Alabama used for the first time in January this year. After months of discovery and review of key documents, Miller agreed to settle with the State. The terms remain confidential, but Miller's lawsuit will be dismissed with prejudice.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in urging the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to uphold national TikTok divest-or-ban legislation passed by Congress earlier this year. The federal law mandates a ban on TikTok in the United States unless ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company, sells its stake in the platform. ByteDance and TikTok have sued the federal government following the enactment of this ban.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 18 other attorneys general in opposing the Biden-Harris administration’s assertion that state laws preventing de-banking pose a “national security threat.” The coalition contends that this claim is an attempt to create confusion about state laws to further activist agendas.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the arrest of Terry Andrew Heflin, the Democratic candidate for District 5 of the Clay County Commission, on seven felony counts of voter fraud.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Circuit Court of Shelby County has granted a preliminary injunction against Legend Windows, LLC and individuals associated with the business, including Jody Ray Whitworth, Bobby Ray Whitworth, and Robin Simmons Willard.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the conviction of a Pike County man on possession of child pornography. Yuchen Wu, 34, of Troy, and a Chinese national, pleaded guilty in Pike County Circuit Court to one count of possession of obscene matter depicting a person under the age of 17.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined a coalition of 25 states, led by West Virginia and Indiana, in requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to issue an emergency stay on the implementation of a new rule by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning existing coal-, natural gas-, and oil-fired power plants.
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Attorney General Steve Marshall of Alabama has joined a coalition of 11 states in opposing the Biden Administration's proposal to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the federal Controlled Substances Act. The coalition submitted a public comment letter in response to the Department of Justice’s Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) regarding the proposed change.
