Birmingham mayor convicted on bribery charges
October 29, 2009
[JURIST] A federal jury on Wednesday convicted Birmingham, Alabama, Mayor Larry Langford [official profile] on multiple bribery charges. Langford was accused [indictment, PDF] of directing $7.1 million in bond business to a friend in exchange for money and luxury goods [Bloomberg report] while servi....... [more] 
Birmingham mayor pardons 1960s civil rights protesters
August 12, 2009
[JURIST] The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, on Tuesday pardoned 2,500 people arrested in the city during nonviolent civil rights protests in the 1960s. Announcing the pardons at a city council meeting, Mayor Larry Langford [official website] said that the city had an obligation to ask for forgiveness....... [more]
Former HealthSouth CEO found liable for $2.88 billion
June 19, 2009
[JURIST] Former HealthSouth [corporate website] CEO Richard Scrushy [defense website; JURIST news archive] was found liable [opinion; order, PDF] to the company's shareholders for fraud Thursday by Judge Allwin Horn of Alabama's 10th Judicial District [official website] and ordered to pay $2.88 bill....... [more]
Sotomayor nomination met with mixed reactions
May 27, 2009
[JURIST] Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions [official website], the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website], said Wednesday that he does not anticipate a filibuster [AP report] against US Supreme Court [official website] nominee Sonia Sotomayor [official profile]. Sessions add....... [more]
Eleventh Circuit denies Alabama ex-governor request for en banc review
May 17, 2009
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] on Friday denied the petition of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman (D) [official profile; JURIST news archive] and former HealthSouth [corporate website] CEO Richard Scrushy [JURIST news archive] for an en banc rehearin....... [more]
Alabama court begins hearing shareholder lawsuit against ex-HealthSouth CEO
May 12, 2009
[JURIST] Alabama's Jefferson County Circuit Court [official website] on Monday began hearing a $2.6 billion derivative lawsuit brought by HealthSouth [corporate website] shareholders against company founder and former CEO Richard Scrushy [defense website; JURIST news archive] for his alleged role in....... [more]
Federal court to try Somali piracy suspect as adult
April 22, 2009
[JURIST] Alleged Somali pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, captured by US forces following an attempted attack on the container ship Maersk Alabama [corporate backgrounder], was charged [compliant, PDF] Tuesday and will be tried as an adult following a ruling by federal magistrate judge Andrew Peck of....... [more]
Eleventh Circuit upholds convictions against former Alabama governor, HealthSouth CEO
March 7, 2009
[JURIST] A three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] on Friday upheld [opinion, PDF] the 2006 convictions [DOJ press release; JURIST report] of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman (D) [official profile; JURIST news archive] and former HealthSouth [cor....... [more]
ACLU requests records on sex segregation in Alabama school
November 13, 2008
'[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday announced that it had filed an Alabama Open Records Act request to obtain documents related to the Hankins Middle School policy of educating students in a single-sex environment. In a....... [more]
Alabama Supreme Court stays execution after DNA evidence questioned
July 31, 2008
'[JURIST] The Alabama Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Wednesday to indefinitely stay the execution of Thomas Arthur, who had been sentenced to death by lethal injection for a 1982 contract killing. Arthur would have been executed on Thursday. The court did....... [more]
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