Attorney Trenton Garmon, known for representing former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore during his controversial U.S. Senate race last year, sued a digital “reputation” manager, saying it failed to bury unflattering media about him.
Read moreAttorneys representing seven Alabama environmental groups asked the 11th Circuit on Friday to revoke the Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s authority to issue water discharge permits on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read moreAttorneys representing a state NAACP chapter asked the 11th Circuit on Friday to throw out a district court ruling which dismissed their challenge to Alabama’s voter ID law without a trial.
Read moreFormer U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore claims in a state lawsuit Wednesday that he was defamed last year by a political action committee’s multi-million-dollar advertising campaign against him during a highly publicized special election in Alabama.
Read moreIncumbent Congresswoman Martha Roby tromped former Congressman Bobby Bright on Tuesday in the Republican primary runoff in Alabama’s Second Congressional District.
Read moreBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CN) — Republican voters in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District today will determine which is the greater political sin:
Read moreCiting the states’ long histories of suppressing the right to vote among their black voters, an organization headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder sued three states in the Deep South, accusing them of using gerrymandering to dilute the strength of their black voters.
Read moreFive years after U.S. officials marked the spring pygmy sunfish as threatened, the absence of a critical habitat has left the tiny fish clinging to survival, environmentalists claim in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly confirmed an Alabama attorney to a seat on the federal court in Birmingham.
Read moreFour-term Alabama Republican Congresswoman Martha Roby was forced into a July runoff election after she failed to win 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s primary. Governor Kay Ivey, who took office last year after her predecessor resigned, defeated three GOP challengers.
Read moreForeclosing the chance that Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” would see a courtroom preview, producers and the estate of Harper Lee announced Thursday that they settled their artistic differences.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Thursday announced the nominations of 10 new judges, including one to the Ninth Circuit and seven to courts across New York.
Read moreAlabama’s disgraced former governor Robert Bentley conspired with other state employees to defame a former finance official who was tasked with finding and delivering Bentley’s emails in response to a subpoena, the former official said in a lawsuit Tuesday.
Read moreGranting a Broadway production company’s request to move a lawsuit over its stage adaption of “To Kill a Mockingbird” from Alabama to New York, a federal judge said Monday that a live courtroom performance could be needed to decide the case.
Read moreSaying his opportunity to seek political office was hindered, failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore filed a defamation lawsuit against three women who publicly accused him of sexual misconduct in the weeks leading up to the special election in Alabama.
Read moreAlabama mail bomber Walter Moody, 83, became the oldest inmate put to death in modern U.S. history on Thursday night after the Supreme Court refused to intervene in the execution.
Read moreHollywood producer Scott Rudin’s theater company filed a $10 million countersuit against the estate of author Harper Lee for trying to block an upcoming stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and offered a courtroom performance featuring actor Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch.
Read moreOral arguments before the 11th Circuit usually last 15 minutes per side. But in a small courtroom in Montgomery, Alabama, a trio of judges grilled a lawyer for the state of Alabama for over an hour about the roles of the district attorney, judge and parents in the event a minor seeks a judge’s approval for an abortion instead of her parents.
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