Supreme Court of Alabama Decisions 2019
Opinions 1 - 500 of 608
Date: December 20, 2019
Docket Numbers: 1171199, 1170864, 1170887, 1170894, 1171182, 1171196, 1171197, 1171198
Justia Opinion Summary: Mandamus petitions before the Alabama Supreme Court presented a question of whether the Cherokee Circuit Court and the Etowah Circuit Court (collectively, "the trial courts") could properly exercise personal jurisdiction…
Date: December 20, 2019
Docket Number: 1180088
Date: December 20, 2019
Docket Number: 1180246
Date: December 20, 2019
Docket Numbers: 1180360, 1171028
Justia Opinion Summary: Consolidated petitions for a writ of mandamus required the Alabama Supreme Court to consider the objections of four nonparty witnesses to subpoenas issued by the Utilities Board of the City of Daphne ("Daphne…
Date: December 20, 2019
Docket Number: 1180434
Justia Opinion Summary: William DeVos, M.D., and Donald Simmons, M.D. (collectively, "the doctors"), appealed a preliminary injunction entered in an action filed against them by The Cunningham Group, LLC, and Cunningham Pathology, LLC. The…
Date: December 20, 2019
Docket Number: 1180700
Justia Opinion Summary: The State of Alabama, on the relation of Shirley Williams-Scott, appealed a circuit court order denying Williams-Scott's petition for a writ of quo warranto seeking to declare that Eddie Penny did not hold office as the…
Date: December 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1170922
Date: December 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1171207
Date: December 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180055
Justia Opinion Summary: Valley National Bank ("VNB") petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct directing the trial court to dismiss a declaratory-judgment action filed against VNB by Jesse Blount, Wilson Blount, and…
Date: December 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180452
Date: December 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180550
Date: December 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180825
Date: December 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180972
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 1180109
Justia Opinion Summary: The City of Daphne ("the City") appealed a circuit court judgment entered in favor of David and Sarah Fannon, in an action seeking damages pursuant to section 235, Ala. Const. 1901, for the taking of, injury to, or…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 1180372
Justia Opinion Summary: Sonia Blunt, a teacher in the Tuscaloosa City Schools system ("TCS"), petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the Tuscaloosa Circuit Court to enter a summary judgment in her favor on the…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 1180402
Justia Opinion Summary: Burkes Mechanical, Inc. petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct a trial court to vacate its order denying Burkes's motion to dismiss claims of negligence, wantonness, and the tort of outrage…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 1180604
Justia Opinion Summary: Luther Pate IV and New Pate, LLC, filed suit against Chris Hayslip, among others, seeking indemnity and to set aside a particular transfer of funds as fraudulent. Hayslip filed a motion to dismiss Pate and New Pate's…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 1180693
Justia Opinion Summary: Liberty National Life Insurance Company and Marcus Rich sought mandamus relief to direct the Montgomery Circuit Court ("the trial court") to vacate its order denying their motions to transfer an action filed against them…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 1180773
Justia Opinion Summary: Tim Tucker petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the Baldwin Circuit Court to vacate its order denying his summary-judgment motion in which he contended he was entitled to State-agent…
Date: November 27, 2019
Docket Number: 1170992
Justia Opinion Summary: The City of Wetumpka sued Alabama Power Company because Alabama Power refused to relocate overhead electrical facilities located within the City's downtown area at the power company's expense. The circuit court dismissed…
Date: November 27, 2019
Docket Number: 1171118
Justia Opinion Summary: Dow Corning Corporation, Dow Corning Alabama, Inc., Rajesh Mahadasyam, Fred McNett, Zurich American Insurance Company, and National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court…
Date: November 27, 2019
Docket Number: 1180342
Justia Opinion Summary: The State of Alabama appealed a circuit court judgment entered in favor of the City of Birmingham and its mayor, Randall Woodfin. The State sued the City claiming the mayor violated the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act…
Date: November 22, 2019
Docket Number: 1170896
Justia Opinion Summary: This case challenged a circuit court default judgment against Muhammad Wasim Sadiq Ali and others in favor of Mike Williamson after a case ordered to private arbitration was remanded to the trial court. Williamson,…
Date: November 22, 2019
Docket Number: 1171002
Justia Opinion Summary: Patricia Devine sued to invalidate a foreclosure sale that divested her interest in a property located in Elberta, Alabama. The trial court explained that the foreclosure was lawful and that Devine's lawsuit was, in any…
Date: November 22, 2019
Docket Number: 1180349
Justia Opinion Summary: Woodruff Brokerage Company, Inc., the remaining defendant in this case, appealed the trial court's denial of its motion to set aside the default judgment entered in favor of plaintiff Patricia Beatty. Beatty sued…
Date: November 22, 2019
Docket Number: 1180482
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Beulah Jean James Moore ("Beulah") appealed the grant of summary judgment entered in favor of plaintiff Billy Edward Moore ("Billy"), individually and as executor of the estate of his brother and Beulah's…
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1170238
Justia Opinion Summary: Road Gear Truck Equipment, LLC ("Road Gear"), a corporation based in Franklin County, petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Marshall Circuit Court to vacate its order denying Road Gear's motion to…
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Numbers: 1170988, 1190995
Justia Opinion Summary: This case addressed whether a foster-care provider and a caseworker for the Department of Human Resources ("DHR") were immune from liability. Arnold Curry filed this wrongful-death action against Becky Van Gilder, a…
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1180041
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1180093
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1180285
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1180361
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1180466
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1180467
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1180553
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1180569
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1180601
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1180701
Date: November 8, 2019
Docket Number: 1180183
Justia Opinion Summary: Ultratec Special Effects, Inc. ("Ultratec"), filed two petitions for mandamus relief from the Alabama Supreme Court, to get the trial court to vacate its October 25, 2018 order denying Ultratec's motion for a summary…
Date: November 8, 2019
Docket Number: 1180624
Justia Opinion Summary: Allstate Insurance Company ("Allstate") petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the Perry Circuit Court ("the trial court") to vacate its order denying Allstate's motion to transfer an…
Date: November 1, 2019
Docket Number: 1170708
Justia Opinion Summary: Since November 2012, LNM1, LLC, operated a gasoline station and convenience store in Greensboro, Alabama under a lease agreement with the owner of the property, TP Properties, LLC. In August 2017, TP Properties sued LNM1…
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number: 1171126
Justia Opinion Summary: Zachariah Cowart ("Zachariah") accidentally ran over his wife Misty Cowart ("Misty"). Misty was partially compensated for her injuries under one provision of her automobile-insurance policy, and she sought to use the…
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number: 1180215
Justia Opinion Summary: Magic City Capital, LLC ("Magic City"), appealed the grant of summary judgment entered by the Madison Circuit Court in favor of Twickenham Place Partners, LLC ("Twickenham"). Because the Alabama Supreme Court determined…
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number: 1180324
Justia Opinion Summary: Darrio Melton, as mayor of the City of Selma ("the city"), appealed a judgment entered in favor of the members of the Selma City Council. In September 2018, the council adopted Ordinance No. O108-17/18 giving the council…
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number: 1180387
Justia Opinion Summary: Forest Laboratories, LLC ("Forest"), filed a permissive appeal pursuant to Rule 5, Ala. R. App. P., of an Alabama circuit court's order denying it summary judgment. Forest manufactured and marketed Lexapro, a drug…
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number: 1180630
Justia Opinion Summary: CityR Eagle Landing, LLC ("CityR"), and Foresite Realty Management, LLC ("Foresite"), petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the Montgomery Circuit Court to vacate its order appointing Kia…
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number: 1180774
Justia Opinion Summary: D.P.T. sought a writ of mandamus to direct the Circuit Court to rescind a discovery order that, D.P.T. asserted, required him to execute written authorizations allowing the respondents, D.P.T.'s insurers--United States…
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number: 1171144
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal involved the interpretation of the patronage-refund requirements imposed on electric cooperatives by 37-6-20, Ala. Code 1975. Recherche, LLC, individually and on behalf of all other current and former members…
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number: 1180220
Justia Opinion Summary: SAI Montgomery BCH, LLC, d/b/a Classic Cadillac and Andrew Harper, general manager for Cadillac appealed a trial court order denying their motions to compel arbitration. The matter arose over a lease agreement. Customers…
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number: 1180281
Justia Opinion Summary: Regina Norwood and Rita Patelliro appealed a probate court order. Josephine Mary Damico ("the testator") executed a will, devising the entirety of her estate to her sister, Sarah Frances Cox. The testator expressly…
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number: 1180683
Justia Opinion Summary: Courtyard Manor Homeowners' Association, Inc. ("Courtyard Manor") appealed dismissal of its complaint against the City of Pelham. In August 2018, Courtyard Manor filed a complaint against the City after the City failed…
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number: 1170694
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number: 1180273
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number: 1180329
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number: 1180592
Date: September 30, 2019
Docket Number: 1171194
Justia Opinion Summary: S. Mark Booth petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus directing the the trial court to dismiss an action filed against him by the City of Guin. In 2008, Booth and the City entered into a contract…
Date: September 30, 2019
Docket Number: 1180012
Justia Opinion Summary: Dahyalal Patel filed an action seeking to enforce his ownership rights as a shareholder in Subway No. 43092, Inc. ("the corporation"), against shareholder Ashish Shah ("Shah"), Shah's father, Ramesh Shah ("Ramesh"); and…
Date: September 30, 2019
Docket Number: 30557
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number: 1170787
Justia Opinion Summary: In July 2012, Dr. William Sullivan prescribed Remicade, a medication manufactured by Janssen Biotech, Inc. ("JBI"), to Tim McKenzie as a treatment for Tim's psoriatic arthritis. Tim thereafter received Remicade…
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number: 1180474
Justia Opinion Summary: The City of Tuskegee ("the City") petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the trial court to vacate its order denying the City's motion for a summary judgment as to negligent inspection and…
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number: 1170833
Justia Opinion Summary: The City of Evergreen, Alabama ("the City") terminated the employment of Helen Wiggins, a warrant clerk and magistrate, after the Evergreen City Council ("the Council") accepted the recommendation of the City's mayor…
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number: 1171133
Justia Opinion Summary: Tyler Taylor injured his right index finger while in the line and scope of employment with Imperial Aluminum-Scottsboro, LLC ("Imperial"). The issue this case presented for the Alabama Supreme Court's review centered on…
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number: 1180196
Justia Opinion Summary: Jerome Speegle and Anthony Hoffman, two members of Zieman Speegle, LLC, a law firm based in Mobile, petitioned for approval of dissolution of the firm. Thomas Zieman, Jr., previously a member of the law firm, appeared in…
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number: 1180589
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1170922
Justia Opinion Summary: Five Star Credit Union ("Five Star") attempted for over a decade to collect a debt owed by William Elliott. Five Star obtained a judgment against Elliott in 2011, but he never paid. In 2017, Five Star sought to garnish…
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1171001
Justia Opinion Summary: Antoinette Belle, as personal representative of the estate of Edith Mitchell, deceased, sued various health-care providers that treated Mitchell while she was hospitalized in April 2009. Belle eventually reached…
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1171155
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1171159
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180074
Justia Opinion Summary: Ronny Sanders and his employer KKE, LLC, sought to transfer a wrongful-death case filed against them in Bibb County, Alabama to Chilton County, where the automobile accident giving rise to the case occurred. KKE was a…
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180237
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180452
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180537
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180564
Justia Opinion Summary: Dara Myelia Reed petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Jefferson Circuit Court to vacate its order denying Reed's motion for a change of venue and to enter an order transferring the…
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180568
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number: 1180855
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 1180292
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs Startley General Contractors, Inc. ("Startley"), and Mandy Powrzanas, appealed the denial of their renewed motion to have Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Robert Vance, Jr. recuse himself from the underlying…
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 1180311
Justia Opinion Summary: Jason Blanks, Peggy Manley, Kimberly Lee, Nancy Watkins, Randall Smith, Trenton Norton, Earl Kelly, Jennifer Scott, and Alyshia Kilgore (referred to collectively as "the customers") appealed the denial of a motion to…
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number: 1180642
Justia Opinion Summary: Trinity Property Consultants, LLC ("Trinity Property"), petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals holding that Trinity Property failed to meet its…
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 1170244
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 1170588
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 1170874
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 1171129
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 1180555
Date: August 16, 2019
Docket Number: 1180273
Justia Opinion Summary: Ronald Heining and his son, Tyler Heining, appealed the grant of summary judgment in favor of Robert J. Dean, Jr., Public Works Director of the City of Anniston, and Darryl Abernathy, a supervisor in the Public Works…
Date: August 16, 2019
Docket Number: 1180376
Justia Opinion Summary: C. Randall Caldwell, Jr. worked for George Woerner, who owned several businesses headquartered in Foley. In 2009, Caldwell was promoted to president of Woerner Landscape, Inc., one of those businesses. Caldwell stated…
Date: August 16, 2019
Docket Number: 1180437
Justia Opinion Summary: Donald Croom Beatty, Jr., appealed a circuit court judgment dismissing an action involving the estate of his mother, Mary Alice Gatlin Beatty. The Alabama Supreme Court determined Donald's notice of appeal was untimely…
Date: August 9, 2019
Docket Number: 1171207
Date: August 9, 2019
Docket Number: 1180157
Date: August 9, 2019
Docket Number: 1180288
Date: August 9, 2019
Docket Number: 1180294
Date: August 9, 2019
Docket Number: 1180313
Date: August 9, 2019
Docket Number: 1180400
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 1170709
Justia Opinion Summary: In case no. 1170709, Jere Austill III appealed a circuit court judgment permitting Tyler Montana Jul Prescott to redeem certain real property under sections 40-10-82 and 40-10-83, Ala. Code 1975. Specifically, Austill…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 1170974
Justia Opinion Summary: This dispute centered on whether Keith Arnold had to reimburse his former employer, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, LLC ("HMMA"), for expenses HMMA incurred in moving Arnold from Kentucky to Alabama to begin…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 1171007
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 1171026
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 1171099
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 1180055
Justia Opinion Summary: Valley National Bank ("VNB") petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the Montgomery Circuit Court to dismiss a declaratory-judgment action filed against VNB by Jesse Blount, Wilson Blount,…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 1180228
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 1160926
Justia Opinion Summary: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company ("Deutsche Bank"); MERSCORP, Inc., and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (collectively, "MERS"); and CIS Financial Services, Inc. ("CIS"), petitioned the Alabama Supreme…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Numbers: 1170244, 1170294, 1170336
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from the adoption of "Baby Doe" by his adoptive mother, K.G.S., which was contested by Baby Doe's birth mother, K.R. ("the birth mother"). Details of that contested adoption were reported by the…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 1170294
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 1170336
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 1171030
Justia Opinion Summary: The Health Care Authority for Baptist Health, an affiliate of UAB Health Systems ("the Authority"), and Simeon Penton (collectively, "Baptist Health") appealed a circuit court judgment compelling Baptist Health to…
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number: 1170391
Justia Opinion Summary: This case was an estate-administration case that was only partially before the Alabama Supreme Court. Perry Eugene Cox, Jr. ("Cox"), appealed a judgment made final by the Shelby Circuit Court ("the trial court") under…
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Numbers: 1170856, 1171150
Justia Opinion Summary: Several former employees of Alabama Psychiatric Services, P.C. ("APS"), filed a putative class action against APS and Managed Health Care Administration, Inc. ("MHCA"), an affiliate of APS, alleging APS had not paid the…
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number: 1171150
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 1170694
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved a dispute over the planned construction of a high-rise condominium along the Gulf of Mexico in Orange Beach, Alabama. The Perdido Dunes property shared common boundaries with property containing other…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 1171045
Justia Opinion Summary: Daniel Donaldson appealed the grant of summary judgment in favor of Country Mutual Insurance Company ("Country Mutual"). The underlying action stemmed from a November 2015 accident in which Donaldson, while working in a…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 1171178
Justia Opinion Summary: Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood, P.C. ("the firm"), appealed a circuit court judgment awarding postjudgment interest to Jason DuBois. DuBois sued asserting a worker's compensation claim and tort claims…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 1180053
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 1180105
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 1180330
Justia Opinion Summary: W.R. Meriwether, Factors & Drayage, LLC ("Meriwether"), and Gregory Thompson appealed adverse judgments entered in Meriwether and Thompson's action against the Pike Road Volunteer Fire Protection Authority ("the Fire…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 1180341
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 1170942
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 1180002
Justia Opinion Summary: The State of Alabama petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a mandamus relief. The State sought the vacation of a circuit court order holding certain statutes and acts of Alabama unconstitutional, and to require the…
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number: 1170249
Justia Opinion Summary: Douglas Ghee, as the personal representative of the estate of Billy Fleming, appealed a circuit court order dismissing a wrongful-death claim brought against USAble Mutual Insurance Company d/b/a Blue Advantage…
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number: 1170588
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company ("Nationwide") appealed a judgment entered in favor of plaintiff The David Group, Inc. ("TDG"), which held TDG was entitled to coverage and indemnification under a…
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number: 1180199
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs David and Lisa McDaniel petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the Shelby Circuit Court to vacate its order staying the proceedings against defendants Southern Craftsman Custom…
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 1170484
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 1170706
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 1170724
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 1170737
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Numbers: 1171046, 1171061
Justia Opinion Summary: Greenway Health, LLC, and Greenway EHS, Inc. (formerly EHS, Inc.) (collectively, "the Greenway defendants"), and Sunrise Technology Consultants, LLC, and Lee Investment Consultants, LLC (collectively, "the Sunrise…
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 1171061
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 1180204
Justia Opinion Summary: Between 2012 and 2014, Medhost of Tennessee, Inc. ("Medhost"), sold Russell County Community Hospital, LLC, d/b/a Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital ("the taxpayer"), computer software and accompanying equipment, which…
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 1180241
Justia Opinion Summary: Jessie and Rickey Castleberry appealed a circuit court order dismissing their claims against Angie's List, Inc., based on a forum-selection clause in a contract between Angie's List and the Castleberrys. The…
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 1170286
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 1170441
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 1170650
Justia Opinion Summary: Betty Hill sued Emma Armstrong and another defendant after Hill was bitten by three dogs. When Armstrong and her trial counsel failed to appear at trial at the appointed time, the trial court declared from the bench that…
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 1171062
Justia Opinion Summary: Putnam County Memorial Hospital ("Putnam") appealed a circuit court denial of its motion to set aside a default judgment entered in favor of TruBridge, LLC ("TruBridge"), and Evident, LLC ("Evident"). In September 2015,…
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 1171127
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 1171179
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 1180087
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 1180136
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number: 1170874
Justia Opinion Summary: Katerial Wiggins, individually and as the administrator of the estate of Dominic G. Turner, deceased, and as the next friend of Dominic Turner, Jr. ("D.T."), appealed the grant of summary in favor of Mobile Greyhound…
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number: 1170934
Justia Opinion Summary: Chiropractic Life Center, Inc. ("CLC"), sued Kathryn Naman, alleging she failed to pay for chiropractic care she had received at CLC. The district court entered a judgment in favor of Naman, which CLC did not appeal.…
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number: 1180454
Justia Opinion Summary: T.M.F. petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to review the March 5, 2019 order of the Court of Civil Appeals denying his petition for a writ of mandamus. T.M.F. sought the to direct the Jefferson…
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number: 1170546
Justia Opinion Summary: In March 2004, Antonio Jones was convicted of capital murder for the intentional killing of Ruth Kirkland during the course of a burglary. The jury recommended, by a vote of 11 to 1, that Jones be sentenced to death. The…
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number: 1170738
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs A.A. Nettles, Sr. Properties Limited, and Eula Lambert Boyles sought to quiet title a right-of-way that had been conveyed by the Alabama Railroad Company to the Monroe County Commission for use as a…
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number: 1171213
Justia Opinion Summary: Crystal Wayne petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for review of the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision affirming, by an unpublished memorandum, a circuit court's revocation of Wayne's probation. Wayne was convicted of…
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number: 1180105
Justia Opinion Summary: McArthur Sargent, chairman of The Waterworks and Gas Board of Dora, Alabama ("the Board"), in the name of the State of Alabama, appealed a circuit court order denying Sargent's petition for a writ of quo warranto seeking…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 1170673
Justia Opinion Summary: Lonnie Beal sued his former employer, Shoals Extrusion, LLC, an aluminum-extrusion business in Florence, Alabama after his employment there was terminated in November 2015. Beal alleged that Shoals Extrusion breached the…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 1170982
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 1180076
Date: April 12, 2019
Docket Number: 1180011
Date: April 12, 2019
Docket Number: 1180443
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 1170575
Justia Opinion Summary: Taurus Carroll was convicted on one count of murder for intentionally causing the death of Michael Turner, a fellow inmate, after having been convicted of another murder within the preceding 20 years, and a second count…
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 1170795
Justia Opinion Summary: The Clay County Commission appealed a trial court decision in favor of Clay County Animal Shelter, Inc. In July 2017, the county commission and three individuals ("the plaintiffs") initiated an action in against the…
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 1170804
Justia Opinion Summary: Alfa Insurance Corporation, Alfa Mutual General Insurance Corporation, Alfa Life Insurance Corporation, and Alfa Specialty Insurance Corporation (collectively, "Alfa") petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of…
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 1171082
Justia Opinion Summary: GASP, an Alabama nonprofit corporation, filed a petition for certiorari review by the Alabama Supreme Court to challenge a Court of Civil Appeals decision. The Court of Civil Appeals affirmed the Montgomery Circuit…
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 1171103
Justia Opinion Summary: Ralph Eustace, Linda Eustace, and Daryl Eustace sued James Ray ("Ray") Wilbourn and his wife Karen, alleging a trespass to land and conversion of timber. The Wilbourns filed a counterclaim, seeking to establish title to…
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 1171174
Justia Opinion Summary: William Harrington petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for certiorari review of the Court of Civil Appeals' order dismissing his appeal as untimely. In 2016, Harrington sued Big Sky Environmental, LLC, Gabriel Kim, and…
Date: March 29, 2019
Docket Number: 1170484
Date: March 22, 2019
Docket Number: 1170179
Date: March 22, 2019
Docket Number: 1170197
Justia Opinion Summary: William Carroll, M.D., Loring Rue, M.D., and Gustavo Heudebert, M.D. (collectively, defendants), appealed a circuit court's denial of their motion to compel arbitration of claims asserted against them by Paul F.…
Date: March 22, 2019
Docket Number: 1170490
Justia Opinion Summary: This case contested the validity of a property deed that was executed by Gayron Brooks in the weeks before her death from lung cancer. The deed conveyed her house in Boaz to her husband of 18 years, David. Following…
Date: March 22, 2019
Docket Number: 1170778
Date: March 22, 2019
Docket Number: 1171108
Justia Opinion Summary: Ella Bell, a member of the Alabama State Board of Education ("ASBE"), appealed a circuit court's dismissal of her complaint asserting claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, the tort of outrage, negligence and…
Date: March 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1170450
Justia Opinion Summary: Steven Christopher Jones ("Chris Jones") appealed a circuit court judgment entered in favor of Tammy Brewster and Jeffrey Eugene Brewster in a will contest filed by Jones concerning the will of his father, Mike Jones.…
Date: March 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1170504
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented for the Alabama Supreme Court’s review was who had the power to determine the location of an arbitration proceeding: an arbitrator or Circuit Court. The Court concluded that, under the facts…
Date: March 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1170983
Date: March 15, 2019
Docket Number: 1171127
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