Defense counsel for an Alabama pharmacy owner facing criminal charges for allegedly violating Medicaid rules have taken the unusual tack of asking a federal judge in Mobile to order the…
An Alabama lawyer credited with saving the life of a boy and his mother last year is facing civil suits filed by four former clients claiming they never received settlement…
An Alabama criminal defense attorney doesn’t object to the Christmas tree in the Houston County Courthouse or even the ornaments, featuring photographs of crime victims, with which it is decorated.
Police acting on a tip Wednesday about a man at an Alabama Greyhound station with narcotics learned the suspect they were questioning was a lawyer wanted in connection with charges…
A security system installed in June in one or more courthouses in Baldwin County, Ala., included a number of cameras that also recorded audio placed in high-risk areas such as…
A federal appeals court has blocked two provisions in Alabama’s tough immigration law, including a requirement for public schools to check the immigration status of students.
After a partial defeat in its effort to block enforcement of a contraversial new immigration law in Alabama at the federal district court level, the U.S. Department of Justice is…
A misdemeanor charge against an alleged undocumented immigrant in Etowah County, Ala., last week was billed as the first in the state under a controversial new law that allows police…
It appears that a convicted murderer who missed a critical death penalty appeal because of his BigLaw counsel’s failure to open the firm’s mail and see that the clock was…
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