by Glynn Wilson Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks, the leading candidate in the Democratic Party’s race for governor of Alabama in 2010, blasted the state’s conservative Supreme Court on Saturday for playing politics with the gambling issue The Alabama Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday to strike down a preliminary injunction that kept the Gov. Bob Riley’s Task

... Court races haven’t firmed up enough that it would yet be practical to handicap them individually either. However, undaunted, the Alabama Line is willing to consider the odds of a Republican takeover in each house along with the odds of each party sweeping the Supreme Court races. And that’s what we do today in the Alabama Line. I am grateful for all the generous ...

... powers reserved by that instrument to them. At first the amount of business in the Supreme Court was small; now it is large. In 1801, the first year ... year 1901 383. As heretofore stated, the court at first consisted of six members; it never has had at any time over ten, and now has but nine. The following is a list ... R. Curtis, Massachusetts; John A. Campbell, Alabama; Nathan Clifford, Maine; Noah H ...

A convicted murderer who argues Alabama law didn’t allow his death sentence will get a Supreme Court hearing on whether his appeal was filed too late. Inmate Billy Joe Magwood was convicted of ... but there were no aggravating circumstances making him eligible for the death penalty under Alabama law, the New York Times reports. Magwood didn’t raise the issue ...

... law school Justice Stuart worked as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alabama under former Attorney General Charles Graddick. She also served as Executive Assistant to ... . Gov. Fob James appointed her to the Circuit bench in 1997 an was elected without opposition in 1998. She has served a justice on the Alabama Supreme Court since 2001. Justice Stuart and her husband, George, have two ...

... term.  Closer to home, "honest services" prosecutions also resulted in the conviction of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, State Rep. Sue Schmitz and former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford. One of the two cases coming before the court next week involves Conrad M. Black, the newspaper executive who was convicted of defrauding his media company ...

In the 2010 elections three of Alabama's nine Supreme Court seats will be up for election. Voters should take notice of the recent shocking actions of our highest court as shown by their unwillingness to even hear oral arguments of the people of Alabama in the recent Medicaid lawsuits. The voters of Alabama should be the ultimate arbiters of who ...

Now an Alabama Supreme Court Judge, in 1998 Circuit Judge Lyn Stuart released my son's body 12/28/1998 to his father four days after the funeral service had ... Ward Dobbins Funeral Home. At that time I was being jailed in Houston, and Cobb Counties, Georgia. Mobile, Alabama forensics examiner, Julia Goodin, a native of Kentucky, moved on to a position with the State of Iowa.

On December 7, Alabama filed its brief in Shugart v Chapman, the case pending in the 11th circuit ... the U.S. Supreme Court said that if the law under challenge is not discriminatory, then it can survive if it merely has a rational basis. Alabama’ ... rational basis test does not apply. And, indeed, it seems obvious that if Alabama can get along with 5,000 signatures for an independent candidate ...

... Federalist Society national website, this issue includes: New Hampshire Family Court Orders Girl to Public School over Home Schooling Preference ... ; Are Not Protected from Termination, by Michael J. Reitz Alabama Courts Will Not Second-Guess Legislature's Voting Procedures, by E. Berton Spence After Change in Personnel, Michigan Supreme Court Reverses Itself in Major Insurance Decision, by R ...

From al.com: Attorney General Troy King on Tuesday said an Alabama Supreme Court opinion on bingo provides a provides a “clearer” test for what the ... We do not have a clear test,” King said. King said the Supreme Court specifically did not address whether bingo could be played on machines. Ultimately, King, who said he is opposed to legalized gambling, said he believes the issue ...

... running players out of electronic bingo halls and shutting down the appropriate venues. A recent court hearing overturned the ban on the machines, allowing them as long as ... in March targeted the White Hall Resort and Entertainment Center near Montgomery. Over 900 machines were shut down after a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court declared that evidence showed that the machines were too similar to ...

Alabama Education Association executive secretary Paul Hubbert has been snoozing since 1991, and thinks we need to nip these newfangled charter schools in ... , Macedonia, Tajikistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, and a unified Germany. * A Dow Jones Industrial Average above 3,000. * U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Clarence Thomas. * Comedy Central. * Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Jamie Foxx, Adam ...

... jurisdiction over federal cases originating in the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia) that police should not electrically shock ... proper. For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court is, in all respects, AFFIRMED. This case cites " ... Tasers will limit their use and abuse unless the US Congress legislates or the US Supreme Court overrules the decision in this and similar cases ...

... Record: Rights Group Asks High Court To Release Seven Gitmo Prisoners Into U.S 12/ ... Court withdraws earlier vote on recusal rules Alex De Grand – 12 ... Mobile Press-Register/AP: Alabama Supreme Court Justice Mike Bolin starts ... December 07, 2009 PA JUVENILE COURT CORRUPTION Philadelphia Inquirer: Luzerne Co. kickbacks ... 8211; December 08, 2009 STATE COURT CASELOADS Daily Advertiser: Judges case ...