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Ex parte Justin Lamar Curry.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200147
Ex parte Antonio Montez Reese.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200170
Ex parte Karen Pridgen Stafford.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200172
Ex parte Eugene Lee Jones.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200182
Ex parte D.L.G.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200192
Ex parte Paul O'Conner.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200194
Ex parte Ronald Armbrester.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200205
Ex parte B.O.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200227
Ex parte B.O.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200228
Ex parte Curtis Labarron Bennett.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200243
Ex parte Steven Demote King.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200246
Ex parte Derrione Dominique Gates.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200249
Ex parte Alfred Lee Barnette.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200253
Ex parte B.B. and P.B.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200256
Ex parte Rahsheike Cornell Green.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200257
Ex parte Keri Reed.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200260
Ex parte Matthew Clate McDaniel.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200262
Ex parte Moses Jackson.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200263
Ex parte Barbara Terrell.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200273
Ex parte S.C.H.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200279
Ex parte William Hubert Hancock.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200286
Ex parte Richard Allen Yeager.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200288
Ex parte Nigel Pierce Steele.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200308
Ex parte Joey A. Grizzell.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200315
Ex parte Kenneth E. Morris.
Date: March 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200327
Taylor v. Hanks
Date: February 26, 2021
Docket Number:
1190203
Justia Opinion Summary: Lawrence Taylor appealed the grant of summary judgment entered in favor of Charles Hanks in Taylor's will contest. Taylor challenged the will of his father, Billy Lee Hite, alleging, among other things, that Hite had…
Dyas v. Stringfellow et al.
Date: February 26, 2021
Docket Number:
1190258
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs Crag Dyas and Dyas, LLC appealed a circuit court's orders disposing of some of their claims against some of the defendants below. Because those orders did not constitute a valid, final judgment that would…
Ex parte Christopher Luke Radford.
Date: February 26, 2021
Docket Number:
1200058
Plaintiff v. Defendant
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1180302
Ex parte Larry Donald George.
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1180511
Ex parte Alfa Mutual Insurance Company.
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1190117
Goins v. Advanced Disposal Services Gulf Coast, LLC
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1190393
Justia Opinion Summary: Lonas Goins was injured when a train locomotive that he was operating collided with a garbage truck at a railroad intersection. Goins sued the owner and the driver of the truck. After a five-day trial, a jury found in…
Moore v. Tyson
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1190547
Justia Opinion Summary: Chris and Suzanne Moore, as parents and next friends of Sydney Moore, a minor, appealed the grant of summary judgment entered in favor of Pamela Tyson and Jennifer Douthit, two employees of the Huntsville City Board of…
Murphy Oil, USA, Inc. v. English
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1190610
Justia Opinion Summary: Shirley English sued Murphy Oil USA, Inc., after she slipped and fell in the restroom of a Murphy Oil gas station. Murphy Oil moved for summary judgment, but the trial court denied the motion. After a bench trial, the…
Allstate Property & Casualty Ins. Co. v. Harbin
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1190792
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company ("Allstate"), appealed a circuit court's order granting the posttrial motion of the plaintiff, Doyle Harbin, which sought the imposition of sanctions based on…
Ex parte Michael Jerome Lewis.
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1191006
Ex parte Joseph Messina.
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1191016
Ex parte Joseph Messina.
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1191017
Ex parte Kerstin Dylon Reese.
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1191067
Ex parte State of Alabama.
Date: February 19, 2021
Docket Number:
1200042
Alabama v. TY Green's Massage Therapy, Inc.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1180921
Justia Opinion Summary: The State appealed a circuit court order denying its request for a preliminary injunction against TY Green's Massage Therapy, Inc., Yuping Tang, and Jiao Liu a/k/a Serena Tang (collectively, "the defendants"). In…
Ex parte Donnie Wayne Brown.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1190557
Ex parte Keonte Malique Moffett.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1190620
Ex parte Michael Smith.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1190622
Billy Click v. ALFA Mutual Insurance Company
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1190733
Melissa Glover v. Steven Hargrove
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1190834
Lori Dickerson v. Quma Lamb
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1190845
Ex parte Tawanna G. Morton.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1190944
Ex parte Boone Newspapers, Inc., et al.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1190995
Justia Opinion Summary: Boone Newspapers, Inc., the Selma Times-Journal, Blake Deshazo, and Will Whaley (collectively termed "the Newspaper defendants") sought mandamus review of a trial court's order denying their motion requesting that Judge…
Ex parte Raya E. Greenberger.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1191060
Ex parte Susannah Jane Aldridge.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200152
Ex parte Jermaine Lamont Gibbs.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200157
Ex parte Timothy Jackson Richards.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200177
Ex parte Ladarius Orlando Laffitte.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200179
Ex parte Frank S. Mullinax.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200180
Ex parte John Richard Carrithers.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200185
Ex parte Tyricka Lavern Calloway.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200186
Ex parte Windham Sommerville.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200189
Ex parte Harold Wayne Bailey.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200190
Ex parte Undrea Johnson.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200201
Ex parte Major D. Anderson.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200202
Ex parte Henry Walker III.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200203
Ex parte Barry Dowdell.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200208
Ex parte Timothy Vincent Murphy.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200226
Ex parte Maurice Devionne Pope.
Date: February 12, 2021
Docket Number:
1200258
Allstate Insurance Co. v. Ogletree
Date: February 5, 2021
Docket Number:
1180896
Justia Opinion Summary: Allstate Insurance Company ("Allstate") and its insured, Kaitlin Ogletree, disagreed about the extent of damages incurred in an automobile accident that Ogletree had with an underinsured motorist. During closing…
Pruitt v. Oliver
Date: January 29, 2021
Docket Number:
1190297
Justia Opinion Summary: Randall Pruitt appealed the grant of summary judgment against him and in favor of James Oliver with respect to Pruitt’s claims of negligence and wantonness stemming from a collision between Oliver’s car and Pruitt’s…
Nix v. Myers
Date: January 22, 2021
Docket Number:
1170224
Justia Opinion Summary: Anthony Nix, a police officer for the City of Haleyville ("the City"), and the City appealed a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of John Myers. Myers filed suit asserting claims of negligence, wantonness, and…
Butler v. Parks
Date: January 22, 2021
Docket Number:
1190043
Justia Opinion Summary: Two attorneys filed a complaint to recover fees they billed in the course of representing indigent defendants in criminal cases, and sought to certify several classes of plaintiffs. Specifically, they asserted that State…
Ex parte McCoy, Scott, and Henderson.
Date: January 22, 2021
Docket Number:
1190403
Justia Opinion Summary: James Olvey was killed when his vehicle was struck head on by a vehicle driven by Donald Wright II, who was driving the wrong way on Interstate 65 ("I-65") while attempting to flee the police. James Griffin, the personal…
Ex parte Michael Brown.
Date: January 22, 2021
Docket Number:
1190962
Justia Opinion Summary: Michael Brown petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the Lee Circuit Court to dismiss, pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6), Ala. R. Civ. P., the complaint filed against him by Christopher Beamon.…
Ex parte Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc.
Date: January 22, 2021
Docket Number:
1190969
Justia Opinion Summary: Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc. ("Harbor Freight"), petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the Lowndes Circuit Court to vacate its order granting a motion to compel discovery in an action…
The Health Care Authority for Baptist Health v. Dickson
Date: January 15, 2021
Docket Number:
1190179
Justia Opinion Summary: The Health Care Authority for Baptist Health, an affiliate of UAB Health System ("HCA"), and The Health Care Authority for Baptist Health, an affiliate of UAB Health System d/b/a Prattville Baptist Hospital…
Ex parte Linda Steinberg, individually and as sole remaining member and representative of Mendelson Properties, LLC.
Date: January 15, 2021
Docket Number:
1190576
Justia Opinion Summary: Linda Steinberg, individually and as the sole remaining member and representative of Mendelson Properties, LLC, petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the Etowah Circuit Court to vacate its…
Ex parte Jacquees Maurice Boone.
Date: January 15, 2021
Docket Number:
1191092
Ex parte C.B.S.
Date: January 15, 2021
Docket Number:
1200121
Martin Blankenship et al. v. City of Irondale
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1180777
Edward Lemuel McRight v. Alabama State Bar
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1190420
Ex parte Marcus King George.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Numbers:
1190490, 1190498
Justia Opinion Summary: Marcus King George and Alyssa Watson petitioned the Alabama SUpreme Court for certiorari review of the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision in Watson v. Alabama, Ms. CR-18-0377, Jan. 10, 2020 (Ala. Crim. App. 2020), which…
Ex parte Alyssa Sue Watson.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1190498
Ex parte C. J. M., Sr.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1191089
Ex parte David Gregory Copenhaver.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1191094
Ex parte Eric Lamar Skanes.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200027
Ex parte Lugine Capri Caver.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200031
Ex parte Darcell Marcellos Orl Walker.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200045
Ex parte Reed Max Knight.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200057
Ex parte Patrick Alexander McCoy.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200064
Ex parte G.C.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200065
Ex parte Skylar William Cooper.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200067
Ex parte G.C.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200068
Ex parte Lawrence Eddie Hinkle, Jr.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200075
Ex parte Dlonata Khalil Melton.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200078
Ex parte Eric Lenell Johnson.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200096
Ex parte Clifford Sinclair Madison.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200111
Ex parte Aderemi Adebola Onasayna.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200112
Ex parte Michael Burns.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200113
Ex parte Thomas Sterling Biggart, Jr.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200125
Ex parte Kendall Nicole Scott.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200127
Ex parte Anthony Scott Papineau.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200131
Ex parte Billy Alfred Flowers.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200133
Ex parte Kevin M. Henderson.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200135
Ex parte B.J.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200149
Ex parte B.J.
Date: January 8, 2021
Docket Number:
1200150
