Jonathan Berry at The Federalist Society: April Mack sued to recover for the wrongful death of her unborn child, who miscarried after a car accident. The Alabama Supreme Court ultimately vindicated her right to recovery, despite her having miscarried her child before the point of viability. In order to do so, the court found that viability made no sense as a prerequisite to wrongful-death recovery, holding an unborn child’s gestational age irrelevant as a matter of law. Conspicuously, the court never saw fit to even mention the U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence and its treatment of viability.
- Posted: 11/16/2011
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- Category: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: www.fed-soc.org
- Tags: Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Alabama, Topic: Abortion, ZZ: Mack v. Carmack
Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy: In Friday’s Ex Parte E.R.G., the Alabama Supreme Court struck down the Alabama grandparent visitation statute, holding that it violated the rights of parents. The decision was a splintered 4–3-2 decision, which reflects the Supreme Court’s splintered decision in Troxel v. Granville (2000) — which held that some such laws are unconstitutional, but didn’t decide whether all such laws are unconstitutional. And the opinion among state courts is likewise splintered. I hope to have a chance to blog about this in the next few days. But for now, I just wanted to note this passage from Justice Parker’s concurrence (which also contains various assertions about the Christian basis of American law) . . .
- Posted: 06/14/2011
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- Category: Marriage & Family
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- Source: volokh.com
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, State: Alabama, Topic: Jurisprudence, Topic: Marriage, Topic: Polygamy, ZZ: Ex Parte E.R.G., ZZ: Troxel v. Granville
AP: epublicans have moved quickly to convert November election gains to legislative advances in the states. A look at some GOP successes, and setbacks, in the first months of the new order . . .
- Posted: 04/18/2011
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- Category: Miscellaneous
- Tags: State: Alabama, State: Arizona, State: Florida, State: Indiana, State: Kansas, State: Michigan, State: Minnesota, State: Missouri, State: Montana, State: Nevada, State: New Hampshire, State: Ohio, State: Oklahoma, State: Pennsylvania, State: Texas, State: Utah, State: Virginia, State: Wisconsin, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Politics
Anniston Star: “And on the first day of the 2011 legislative session, Sen. Gerald Dial, R-Lineville, introduced a bill to amend the state constitution to allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools and buildings . . . The bill, officially Senate Bill 37, is already being eyed by the Alabama branch of the American Civil Liberties Union . . . ”
- Posted: 03/03/2011
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.annistonstar.com
- Tags: Group: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Group: Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Group: Anti-Defamation League, Group: Foundation for Moral Law, State: Alabama, Topic: Education, Topic: Monuments
ACLJ: “There’s been an important victory in a case that we’ve been involved with out of Alabama . . . For over ten years, a federal court injunction against a small group of activists had been used by the clinic and the Birmingham police to intimidate others from standing on the adjacent sidewalks. Being relegated to a distant sidewalk made effective offers of assistance and information difficult or impossible . . . In a written order issued on January 4th, Judge Ed Ramsey agreed with our arguments, and dismissed the lawsuit against Rev. Mahoney and the Christian Defense Coalition.”
- Posted: 01/06/2011
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- Category: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: www.aclj.org
- Tags: Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), State: Alabama, Topic: Abortion
ChristianNewsWire: “On Friday, October 22, 2010, Circuit Court Judge Edward Ramsey for the 10th Judicial District of Jefferson County, Alabama, issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) prohibiting the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, their founder, Jeff White, and others, from engaging in constitutionally protected activity . . . This morning the hearing was held and the TRO dissolved.”
- Posted: 10/25/2010
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- Category: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: www.christiannewswire.com
- Tags: Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Life Legal Defense Foundation, State: Alabama, Topic: Abortion
Nathan Harden writing at Phi Beta Cons: “During a recent gubernatorial debate held at the University of Alabama, students were reportedly given maps that illustrated approved ‘First Amendment areas’ around campus . . . I invite David French, our resident expert in constitutional law, to correct me if I’m wrong here, but I simply can’t recall ever seeing the cartographic section of the Constitution, showing where the First Amendment applies and where it doesn’t.”
- Posted: 09/28/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.nationalreview.com
- Tags: ADF: David French, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, State: Alabama, Topic: Colleges, Topic: Education, Topic: Politics
“The amicus brief sent Friday to the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said that the Constitution does not require marriage to include same-sex couples. The 39-page brief also said that states, not federal courts, have final say in whether to allow same-sex marriages.”
- Posted: 09/27/2010
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- Category: Featured
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, State: Alabama, State: California, State: Florida, State: Idaho, State: Indiana, State: Louisiana, State: Michigan, State: South Carolina, State: Utah, State: Virginia, State: Wyoming, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, ZZ: Perry v. Brown
Star-Tribune: “Wyoming and nine other states will file a legal brief today saying a federal court ‘exceeded its judicial authority’ when it ruled that the U.S. Constitution requires legal marriage to include same-sex couples. In the amicus brief, which will be filed late this afternoon in the case of Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, the states disagree with the court’s ruling that same-sex marriage is a fundamental right.”
- Posted: 09/24/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
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- Source: trib.com
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, State: Alabama, State: Florida, State: Idaho, State: Indiana, State: Louisiana, State: Michigan, State: South Carolina, State: Utah, State: Virginia, State: Wyoming, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage
ChristianNewsWire: “UAB administrators ordered the young people off of the campus claiming that the public university was actually ‘private property.’ When Kristina Garza, Survivors’ new Campus Life Tour director, asked the UAB administrator what right he had to order the group off of public property, the UAB official refused to speak with Garza and would not even provide his name. UAB police responded to the call by administrators and within two minutes arrested the two activists for failing to heed the unreasonable demand to leave the campus and for videotaping the incident. LLDF attorneys made several calls to UAB’s general counsel. Within a few hours, the young people were released from jail with no criminal charges.”
- Posted: 07/27/2010
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.christiannewswire.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Life Legal Defense Foundation, State: Alabama, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Colleges, Topic: Education
AP: “States have the authority to enforce immigration laws and protect their borders, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said Wednesday in a legal brief on behalf of nine states supporting Arizona’s immigration law.”
- Posted: 07/15/2010
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- Category: Miscellaneous
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- Source: hosted.ap.org
- Tags: State: Alabama, State: Arizona, State: Florida, State: Nebraska, State: Pennsylvania, State: South Carolina, State: South Dakota, State: Texas, State: Virginia, Topic: Immigration, Topic: Northern Mariana Islands
Foundation for Moral Law: “The Foundation for Moral Law (FML) in Montgomery, Alabama, founded by Judge Roy Moore, sent a letter yesterday to the Hoover City Board of Education in Hoover, Alabama, encouraging the Board to bring back invocations at its meetings, despite a threatening anti-prayer letter from a liberal secularist group in Washington,D.C.”
- Posted: 07/14/2010
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.morallaw.org
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Group: Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Group: Foundation for Moral Law, State: Alabama, Topic: Prayer
The Samford Crimson: “[House Bill 432], Alabama’s first anti-human trafficking legislation, passed in both houses of the Alabama State Legislature merely hours before the 2010 legislative session ended on Thursday, April 22. The bill, which provides extensive protection for victims of labor and sex trade, will add Alabama to the list of 44 states that have strictly criminalized human trafficking under state law, according to the Polaris project.”
- Posted: 04/28/2010
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- Category: Miscellaneous
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- Source: media.www.samfordcrimson.com
- Tags: State: Alabama, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Pornography, Topic: Prostitution, Topic: Trafficking
Anniston Star: “In a faxed letter sent to Oxford Superintendent Jeff Goodwin April 23, the national nonprofit Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, claimed Oxford High band director Chris Pennington was violating students’ religious freedoms — protected under the First Amendment — and demanded the problem be corrected immediately. Specifically, the group alleged Pennington was routinely leading his symphonic band class in prayer. The group also alleged Pennington had threatened a failing grade for those symphonic band students who did not show up to perform a concert at a local Baptist church . . . ”
- Posted: 04/27/2010
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: annistonstar.com
- Tags: Group: Freedom from Religion Foundation, State: Alabama, Topic: Education, Topic: Prayer
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