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Chase Tristian Espy, staff attorney for Gov. Kay Ivey -- and a former...
Chase Tristian Espy A staff attorney for Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has been arrested on a child-solicitation charge and was promptly fired.Chase Tristian Espy's ties to Alabama power brokers go well beyond...
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Balch & Bingham law firm reportedly made changes to its Internet service and...
Chase EspyChase Tristian Espy, a former Balch & Bingham attorney now facing a child solicitation charge, was fired at the firm last September, according to a report at banbalch.com. Adding to the...
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Amicus brief in Burt Newsome case shows courts are skeptical of release...
Levin & Zeiger, Philadelphia Part Four The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) should review the conspiracy case aimed at Birmingham attorney Burt Newsome in order to declare that release and dismissal...
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Balch & Bingham has an accused child-predator problem, and it's leaving burn...
Gov. Kay Ivey: "Burn, Baby, Burn" (banbalch.com)Balch & Bingham's handling of former attorney Chase Tristian Espy, now facing child-solicitation charges, have left burn marks from the Alabama...
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Ben Franklin poem provides apt analogy to state courts' butchery of Burt...
David Clifford Holland Part FiveDavid Clifford Holland, a veteran civil-rights litigator from New York City, compares Alabama courts' baffling handling of the Bert Newsome case to a long-ago poem that...
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Ali Alexander and his lawyer, Baron Coleman of Mongomery, are defendants in...
Ali Alexander Ali Alexander, a right-wing extremist with ties to Alabama, organized the Stop the Steal rally that turned into an assault on the U.S. Capitol. Alexander now finds himself among...
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Florida lawsuit fires back at Matrix founder/owner Joe Perkins, with...
Joe Perkins The former president and CEO of Montgomery-based Matrix LLC alleges in Florida court papers that Joe Perkins, the company's founder and owner, demanded a $4.5-million payment or he would...
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James E. Hill Jr., opposing counsel in Burt Newsome conspiracy case, makes...
James E. Hill Jr. Birmingham attorney Burt Newsome is seeking U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) review of his conspiracy case, which alleges individuals tied to the Balch & Bingham law firm engaged in a...
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In addition to making "extortionate" demand for $4.5 million, Matrix owner...
How did Matrix LLC owner Joe Perkins react to news that the firm's CEO, Jeff Pitts, and several other employees were leaving to start a similar firm in Florida? Court documents filed in Duval County,...
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Balch & Bingham's "unholy trinity" of racism, child-sex charge, and elder...
Chase T. Espy connects child-sex charge to BalchShould Southern Company, parent firm of Alabama Power, distance itself from the Balch & Bingham law firm -- given Balch's unsavory stew of PR...
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Gov. Kay Ivey holds the early lead in the Alabama GOP's race to make the...
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Alabama Republicans seem to be conducting a contest to see who can make the most vapid remarks about the vaccine mandates President Joe Biden issued last week. Right now, the...
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From 9/11/2001 to 1/6/2021, Americans have been hit with so many steaming...
George W. Bush at the site of the World Trade CenterMany Americans took time out over the weekend to observe the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on our country. The events of 9/11 are sobering...
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For more than 100 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has held states have the...
Why have state and local governments allowed a summer surge of COVID-19 to happen when they have safe and effective vaccines at their disposal -- and the legal authority to enforce their use? That...
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Director Christopher Wray admits FBI botched sexual-abuse case regarding USA...
USA gymnasts Simon Biles, McKayla Maroney, and Ali Raisman The United States might soon be in need of a new FBI director after Trump nominee Christopher Wray admitted before a Senate panel yesterday...
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Former deputy faces manslaughter charge for the fatal shooting of white...
A protest in Arkansas for Hunter BrittainAn Arkansas deputy has been charged with manslaughter in the fatal June shooting of a white teenager near Little Rock. The incident attracted the attention of...
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Signs of sloppiness at Christopher Wray's FBI go beyond the USA Gymnastics...
Brett Kavanaugh protestSigns of ineptitude and possible corruption at the FBI under Director Christopher Wray did not begin with the botched USA Gymnastics probe, which was the subject of a U.S. Senate...
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The legal world is feeling heat from forest fires sparked by unsavory...
The legal profession tends to avoid serious public scrutiny, but that might be changing, according to a report at banbalch.com. In what should be a surprise to no one, the dubious actions are...
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Epic hack of Epik website-hosting firm provides roughly 10 years of data...
(Associated Press) The story of perhaps the most important data breach in U.S. history has erupted over roughly the past two weeks. The tale is in its infancy, so it's too early to say in what...
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Based on deposition testimony, key figure in the Burt Newsome conspiracy case...
A man who allegedly took threatening actions against Birmingham attorney Burt Newsome, leading to a criminal menacing charge against Newsome and a case that now is before the U.S. Supreme Court for...
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Balch & Bingham's problematic administration of a fund to prevent...
"Pimps of Mississippi" (banbalch.com)We wrote in July about the irony (or maybe the oddity) of Birmingham's Balch & Bingham law firm administering a $200-million COVID-19 relief fund, designed to...
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