The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama has jurisdiction over Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton, Coffee, Coosa, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Elmore, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery, Pike, Randolph, Russell, and Tallapoosa counties. ...
The arbitration award may include attorney's fees if allowed by state law and may be entered as a judgment in any court of proper jurisdiction. the Commonwealth means the Commonwealth of Australia as the party to this agreement; Georgia means the territory recognised by the international community...
dollar verdicts for his clients. Mr. Thompson has been a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association and the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association. He is licensed to practice in all State and Federal Courts in Alabama and the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of Florida....
Later the northern part of the territory now embraced in the State was under the Archbishop of Baltimore, while the southern was under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Louisiana and Florida. In 1825 the Vicariate-Apostolic of Alabama and Florida was created, and the Reverend Michael Portier ...
Not all probate judges have to respond, Johnston said, but if the Alabama Supreme Court rules and issues a writ of mandamus it would apply to all. "It would be for the entire state until a court of competent jurisdiction rules," Johnston said. "The only court of competent jurisdiction tha...
but the law changes frequently and varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The information and materials provided are general in nature, and may not apply to a specific factual or legal circumstance. An attorney-client relationship should not be implied. Nothing on this Web site is intended to ...
even if the Court finds that it does have the authority to remove the Receiver or limit the Receiver's ratemaking authority or that the Court should not abstain from exercising jurisdiction over the Receiver, the Court should nonetheless grant the Receiver relief from the automatic stay to continu...
Supreme Court has original jurisdiction—i.e., it serves as a trial court. Relatively few cases reach the court through its original jurisdiction, however; instead, the vast majority of the court’s business and nearly all of its most influential decisions derive from its appellate jurisdiction....
“It’s my duty to speak up when I see the jurisdiction of our courts being intruded by unlawful federal authority,” the 67-year-old Republican chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court said in an interview Monday. The uneven marriage landscape left one thing a certainty Tuesday: The legal...
Finally, the district court’s other alternative holding – that the challenged districts would satisfy strict scrutiny – rests on a misperception of the law: Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act does not require a covered jurisdiction to maintain a particular numerical minority percentage. Instead,...