An appeals court in Alabama ruled that a man accused of sexually assaulting a college student who later died by suicide can be sued for wrongful death, finding that suicide arising from an alleged sexual assault does not “absolve the alleged assailant of liability.”
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As Alabama challenges the method the federal government is using to keep responses to the 2020 census confidential, one judge hearing the case noted the state constitution allows it to conduct its own count.
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Alabama seeks a quicker release of census data and questions the accuracy of differential privacy, the technique the Census Bureau plans to use to safeguard personal information for next 72 years.
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Waves of tornadoes pummeled the Eastern U.S. over four days in the spring of 2011, killing more than 320 people in six states, including about 250 who died in Alabama on April 27 of that year.
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The failed vote is a setback for a retail union and politicians like Senator Bernie Sanders, who described the effort as a pivotal moment for American unions and workers.
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The vote will determine whether workers at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Bessemer, Alabama, will become the first group of American Amazon employees to be represented by a union.
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The estate of a 36-year-old woman with hypertension who died while in pretrial detention in Covington County Jail may pursue deliberate indifference, failure to train and civil rights claims against several defendants, a federal court in Alabama ruled. The woman had repeatedly asked for medical assistance in the weeks before her death and was only given aspirin.
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As about 5,800 workers in Alabama are voting whether to form the first union at an Amazon warehouse, Sanders told them: “From the bottom of my heart, I salute you.”
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A string of deadly tornadoes roared through Alabama on Thursday, toppling trees, demolishing homes and knocking out power to thousands, part of a broad swath of violent weather sweeping across the Deep South. At least five fatalities and an unknown number of injuries were reported.
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Congressman Mo Brooks, one of the first Republican lawmakers who said they would vote to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, announced Monday he is running for Alabama’s senate seat in the midterm elections.
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Bernie Sanders, chair of the Senate Budget Committee, highlighted the unionization effort at Alabama Amazon plant while announcing a bill targeting high CEO pay.
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Five years deep into litigation, the 11th Circuit rejected an officer’s move to shield himself from liability for using his Taser on an incapacitated 17-year-old.
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Activists who gathered virtually and in person to commemorate a pivotal day in the civil rights struggle that became known as Bloody Sunday called on people to continue the fight for voting rights as they also honored giants of the civil rights movement, including the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who died last year.
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Over the last few weeks, organizers seeking to form the first union at an Amazon plant have invoked the work of Georgia’s voting rights activist in their appeal to employees.
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Liza Scott, 7, started a lemonade stand at her mom’s bakery last summer so she could buy some frills like toys and sequined high-heel shoes. The bouncy little girl is still in business months later, yet the money is going toward something entirely different: surgery on her brain.
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An Alabama inmate on Thursday won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court said the state must allow his personal pastor in the death chamber.
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Alabama would be the first state to carry out an execution this year if allowed to proceed with plans to put to death a 51-year-old inmate convicted in the shotgun slaying of a police detective’s sister decades ago.
Read moreTwo anti-abortion activists failed to establish a violation of their constitutional rights in their suit against the city of Huntsville, Alabama, challenging the city’s permit ordinance and noise provision in its special event permits, the Eleventh Circuit ruled. The activists didn’t prove that the provision “left them without ample alternative channels of communication.”
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After a career spanning more than four decades in Washington, Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama announced Monday he will not seek reelection in 2022.
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An imam filed a federal lawsuit against Alabama on Thursday for barring him from accompanying a Muslim death row inmate during his 2019 execution.
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