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Matt Pitt trial hides nasty story of racism and bullying from Alabama's Paul...
Matt PitThe trial of youth evangelist Matt Pitt is behind us--and it ended, appropriately, with a finding of not guilty. One is left asking: Why did prosecutors in Jefferson County, Alabama, bring such...
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Walter Scott vs. Ted Rollins: Is race a factor in courts' handling of...
The shooting of Walter Scott in South CarolinaShould black Americans feel confident that they can go to court and receive the "equal protection under the law" that the Fourteenth Amendment supposedly...
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Does Poarch Creek plan to fix Alabama budget in exchange for gaming rights...
Wind Creek Casino inWetumpka, AlabamaThe Poarch Band of Creek Indians has offered to fill Alabama's $250-million budget shortfall in exchange for exclusive gaming rights in the state.If that sounds...
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Study indicates I am the only journalist in U.S. history to be jailed via an...
The Newseum Institute's First Amendment Centerat Vanderbilt University.I apparently am the only journalist in American history to be incarcerated because of an unlawful preliminary injunction in a case...
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Was Arrest In Legal Schnauzer Case "Presumptively Unreasonable" By U.S....
If Shelby County deputies arrested me inside my home without a warrant (or without a valid warrant)--and evidence we've seen so far suggests that was the case--they acted contrary to a landmark U.S....
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Will Poarch Creeks pay Mike Hubbard's legal expenses if he helps pave the way...
Mike HubbardThe Poarch Creek Indians apparently have reached a deal to pay legal expenses for Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn) in exchange for his opposition to a bill that would end the...
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Alabama GOPer Rob Riley never has denied under oath the allegations that led...
Rob RileyAlabama attorney and Republican operative Rob Riley never has denied under oath the allegations that prompted him and lobbyist Liberty Duke to file a defamation lawsuit against me, my wife,...
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You had better think twice before asking an Alabama deputy to protect you...
Officer Chris Blevins (left) and yours truly after Blevins had finished"protecting my constitutional rights"The shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, has taught us--among many...
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Alabama deputy's own words show he conducted a bogus traffic stop to serve...
An Alabama deputy admits in court papers that he conducted a "pretext" traffic stop of my wife and me to serve us court papers in a defamation lawsuit brought by Republican political operatives Rob...
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Alabama's Mike Hubbard clings to power as Missouri House speaker steps down...
Missouri House Speaker John DiehlMissouri's Republican House speaker resigned yesterday after admitting he exchanged sexually charged text messages with a female intern. Mike Hubbard, who holds a...
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Hearing on motion to vacate $3.5-million default judgment in Garrison case...
A hearing on a motion to vacate a $3.5-million default judgment in the Jessica Medeiros Garrison case originally was scheduled to be heard this week (May 20) in Jefferson County Circuit Court. But...
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U.S. Magistrate Charles S. Coody screwed up both the facts and law on Canary...
Don SiegelmanA U.S. magistrate in Alabama clearly lied in a public ruling about his "review" of documents related to prosecutor Leura Canary's supposed recusal in the Don Siegelman case. Now we can...
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Orders in Rob Riley and Liberty Duke defamation lawsuit were void, including...
Claud NeilsonA recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling suggests all of the orders in the Rob Riley/Liberty Duke defamation lawsuit against my wife and me were void and due to be vacated. That includes the...
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Could crime-fraud exception to confidentiality rule thwart efforts to disrupt...
Mike Hubbard mailer from the 2014 campaignDuring the 2014 election, Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn) touted his Christian faith as a reason voters should re-elect him, even though he faced...
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U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upholds convictions against former...
Don SiegelmanAn appellate court today upheld convictions against former Alabama governor Don Siegleman in a case that has become widely known among many legal experts as the most notorious political...
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Eleventh Circuit panel uses cheat job on Richard Scrushy to justify its...
Don SiegelmanIf the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals cannot uphold the law and dispense justice, it can at least provide consistency. That seems to be the lesson from the court's opinion...
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Will UA trustees gut undergraduate programs at UAB and UAH to help pay off...
UAB campusThe University of Alabama Board of Trustees plans to address a debt of almost $1 billion by gutting undergraduate programs at UAB and UAH, according to a report from an associate professor at...
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My incarceration in Shelby County, Alabama, was the third longest for a...
California journalist Joshua Wolf, who wasincarcerated for 226 daysMy incarceration, ordered by retired Alabama Circuit Judge Claud Dent Neilson, was the third longest for a journalist in American...
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Judge B. Avant Edenfield, who covered up hunting-club scheme in Alabama...
B. Avant EdenfieldA federal judge, who helped ensure that alleged hunting-club corruption in Alabama divorce courts would stay under wraps, died recently (May 9) in Savannah, Georgia.A prominent...
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Hearing on motion to vacate $3.5-million default judgment has been postponed...
A hearing on a motion to vacate a $3.5-million default judgment in the Jessica Medeiros Garrison case has been postponed for a second time. The hearing originally was scheduled May 20 in Jefferson...
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