Alabama Pastor Can Sue the Cops Who Arrested Him For Refusing To Show His ID
A federal judge rejected the officers' claims of qualified immunity.
A federal judge rejected the officers' claims of qualified immunity.
Kevin Fair fell behind on his property taxes in 2014. The local government eventually gave a private investor the deed to his home.
Reginald Burks says he told a police officer, "Get your ass out of the way so I can take my kids to school." First Amendment lawyers say he can't be forced to apologize.
Lab-grown meat bans don't protect consumers, but they do protect ranchers and farmers from competition.
The cars of two Alabama women were seized for more than a year before courts found they were innocent owners. The Supreme Court says they had no constitutional right to a preliminary hearing.
Abortion rights groups have sued Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after he said he would prosecute anyone who facilitates legal out-of-state abortions.
It's the war on drugs all over again, folks...
Alabama law doesn't let police demand individuals' government identification. But they keep arresting people anyway.
The bill also attempts to ban drag performances at public libraries.
In the Jim Crow South, businesses fought racism—because the rules denied them customers.
Plus: Vanderbilt activists' 911 call, Kevorkianniversary, MAID problems, and more...
Instead of searching for gentle execution methods, states should just stop killing prisoners.
Also: Oppenheimer and Godzilla win at the Oscars, Virginia state lawmakers nuke plans for taxpayer-funded arena, and more...
After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos were children, legislators scrambled to protect in vitro fertilization clinics.
Two-thirds of Americans oppose the Alabama ruling that claims frozen embryos are equivalent to children.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker cited the Bible to explain why.
Greg and Teresa Almond lost their house and livelihood over a misdemeanor drug crime. Sheriff's deputies never got a warrant to search their house.
The pair were then taken to a local jail, where they were mistreated further.
Following the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith last week, Ohio lawmakers introduced a bill to bring the execution method to their state.
Kenneth Eugene Smith was likely the first person in the world to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia.
In killing Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia, the state would be using him as a "test subject," Smith's lawyers argue.
The Alabama State Bureau of Investigation is now looking into the incident as well.
"Alabama law sets the age of majority at 19 years old, not 18 years. An 18-year-old is thus a minor," say Casey McWhorter's lawyers.
Without a prompt post-seizure hearing, people can lose their property for months or years even when they ultimately get it back.
"The police are free to ask questions, and the public is free to ignore them," wrote a federal judge.
Alabamans have no right "to conspire with others in Alabama to try to have abortions performed out of state," argues Attorney General Steve Marshall.
The state has filed a motion to set an execution date for Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived a previous execution attempt.
Etowah County, Alabama, has charged hundreds of pregnant women and new mothers with "chemical endangerment" over minor drug offenses.
James Barber is set to be killed next month, the first execution after a string of botched lethal injection executions in the state.
The state seems to think kids don't like the taste of peach.
Freedom's Dominion argues Southern history was animated by "racialized radical anti-statism." The case is lacking.
Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana have all seen dramatic improvements in reading scores by investing in "science-based" reading instruction.
On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with an Alabama death-row inmate who, after surviving a botched lethal injection attempt last year, says he wants to die by gas chamber instead.
After an array of botched and unsuccessful executions, the state's Department of Corrections says its ready to start executing inmates again.
The Brookside Police Department’s shakedown of travelers became a national news story and prompted federal lawsuits.
Her podcast Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children delves into abuse at a state-run institution.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two consolidated cases by Alabama women whose cars were both seized for more than a year before courts found they were innocent owners.
Lakeith Smith's case epitomizes the issues with the "felony murder" doctrine.
"No one buys this sham of a review," wrote one critic. "And the reason we don't buy it is because we all have functioning brains."
Tony Mitchell's death was a "direct and proximate result" of jail officers' "deliberate indifference or malice, and of their ongoing denial of Tony's constitutional rights under a scheme that continued to operate after his death," his family's suit states.
Montgomery doesn’t want people to see a police dog maul a man to death out of fear of the response.
"Under the new rule, the State would have been able to prolong the botched execution process indefinitely," the Equal Justice Initiative wrote in a press release.
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