Citing 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.
Read moreA federal indictment unsealed Monday claims the founder of Trina Health bribed a former Republican Alabama lawmaker in an effort to force the state’s largest insurer to cover the specialized diabetes treatment his clinics provided.
Read moreA former kindergarten teacher in Alabama was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday, after pleading guilty to one count of producing child pornography.
Read moreThe representative of the estate of famed American author Harper Lee sued a New York theater production company, accusing it of changing too much in its upcoming stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Read moreAt least one person is dead after a charter bus carrying students from a Houston-area marching band on a trip to Disney World crashed into a ravine Tuesday morning in Alabama.
Read moreUnhappy with the $5 million that Daikin NA will pay to settle contaminated-water claims, 300 Alabamans pushed the 11th Circuit on Thursday to make the fluorochemical company pay for future damages.
Read moreWorried other political action committees could follow suit in the midterm elections, a campaign finance watchdog complained to the Federal Elections Commission that a PAC supporting Democratic U.S. Senator Doug Jones misreported millions of dollars in contributions in last year’s Alabama special election.
Read moreAn Alabama resident leading a class action claims he has for the last four years paid taxes to a Birmingham suburb for a school district that doesn’t exist.
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