By Nellie Bowles June 23, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO — The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy. One woman had turned on her air-conditioner, but said it then switched off without her touching it. Another said...
By: Sandra Feldman Georgia and Alabama are the latest states to authorize benefit corporations, effective January 1, 2021. A benefit corporation, in general, is a for-profit corporation that has as one of its purposes the creation of a general public benefit. Its directors must, or may, consider the interests...
By Kent Faulk | kfaulk@al.com The Birmingham NewsEmail the author | Follow on Twitteron January 06, 2016 at 10:42 AMAL.com | Shelby County Probate Judge Jim Fuhrmeister has hired prosecutor Allison Boyd to serve in the newly created position of Programs Coordinator for Mental Health Services and Legal Counsel...
By Kent Faulk | kfaulk@al.com The Birmingham NewsEmail the author | Follow on Twitteron June 09, 2016 at 2:04 PM, updated June 09, 2016 at 3:09 PM AL.com Alabama’s attorney general today denounced a federal appeals court ruling today effectively denying residents of one California county the right of...
By Andre Ramey WPMI | SPANISH FORT, Ala. (WPMI) http://local15tv.com/news/reality-check/little-movement-on-nuisance-house-in-spanish-fort SPANISH FORT, Ala. (WPMI) — An upscale, unfinished Spanish Fort house is at the center of a lawsuit. Work stopped after fears it could collapse surfaced, but the fixes, two years later, are still being debated. We first investigated...
By Matt Reynolds In April, a Florida court held a bench trial over Zoom to decide a child abduction case under the Hague Convention. Later that month, the same state held a major virtual trial on the voting rights of convicted felons, with the public listening in by phone....
C. Ryan Barber National Law Journal From net neutrality rules to the Sally Yates memo, federal agencies came out with major policy announcements and found themselves in high-stakes litigation in 2015. But by the year’s end, there was too little time left to see how those policies would be...