Explaining that three jurors who earlier raised questions about the not-guilty verdict in a criminal case against a former Alabama judge have backed down, the Mobile County…
Saying that three jurors had “expressed some concerns” about the acquittal this week of a former Alabama judge in a prisoner-paddling case, Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. told…
Updated: After three days of deliberations, a former Alabama judge accused of abusing his authority and seeking “sexual jollies” by paddling male prisoners has been found not guilty.
Criminal defense lawyers in Birmingham stepped up to the, er, commode after learning that officials at the local Jefferson County Jail were severely rationing toilet paper.
A state court judge in Alabama ruled today that former HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy was responsible for the company’s fraud and ordered him to pay the company $2.87 billion…
Emboldened by Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to drop its case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, a group of 75 former state attorneys general from across the country is…
A former judge in south Alabama has been arrested and released on $287,500 bond, concerning a 57-count state-court indictment that accuses him, while still on the bench, of sexually abusing…
Two registered nurses who blew the whistle on an alleged Medicare fraud by a major hospice provider have sparked a record $24.7 million settlement with the U.S. government by their…
Two southern law firms based in Birmingham, Ala., and Nashville, Tenn., announced today they would merge to create a 350-lawyer firm with offices in four “strategic” states.
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