How badly does Alabama Republican operative Rob Riley struggle with the...
Rob RileyAlabamians long have had reason to wonder about the honesty of Rob Riley, Homewood lawyer and son of former governor Bob Riley. After all, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) fined the...
View ArticleWas Judge Mark Fuller's decision to resign somehow tied to recent appellate...
U.S. District Judge Mark FullerThe note came from a source eight days ago: Look for the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to force out District Judge Mark Fuller now that a ruling has been issued...
View ArticleAlabama Republican Bob Riley once called Dennis Hastert a "family man" who...
Dennis HastertFormer Alabama governor Bob Riley once praised then U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert as a "family man" who "understands kids."In fact, Riley said of Hastert: " I can’t imagine him not...
View ArticleCases like the resignation of Judge Mark Fuller are so rare that they happen...
Mark FullerHow rare is it for a federal judge, such as Mark Fuller in the Middle District of Alabama, to give up his lifetime appointment and resign?We don't have precise numbers on that question, but...
View ArticleOrder released today by Eleventh Circuit shows that Fuller was staring down...
Mark FullerA judicial panel today issued an order saying the conduct of Alabama federal judge Mark Fuller might "constitute one or more grounds for impeachment."That means Fuller was facing serious...
View ArticleAuthor who revealed Dennis Hastert's taste for young males also broke story...
Dennis HastertWho looks worst in the Dennis Hastert sex scandal? That undoubtedly would be the former U.S. House speaker himself, who now stands accused of agreeing to pay $3.7 million in hush money to...
View ArticleUAB football supporters win a major battle, but the struggle for long-term...
UAB football at Legion FieldThe big news in Birmingham yesterday came when UAB President Ray Watts announced that he was reinstating the university's football program, which had been cut six months...
View ArticleMark Fuller was the face of a system that allowed shadowy characters, like...
Mark FullerThe resignation of U.S. judge Mark Fuller likely is seen, for now, as the byproduct of a domestic-violence case. But the story goes much deeper than that.In many ways, Fuller was the face of...
View ArticleHere's how the "breaking" story of Dennis Hastert's taste for young wrestlers...
Dennis HastertThe No. 1 news story in the country right now is about former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and his efforts to cover up the sexual molestation of at least one youth wrestler...
View ArticleHaving sex with a client, in Alabama or elsewhere, can cause a lawyer to wind...
Allison BergmanA partner at a large midwestern law firm has left the firm and had her license suspended in the wake of revelations that she had a sexual relationship with a client.Yes, in this case,...
View ArticleThe secret lives of Dennis Hastert, Bill Pryor, and other public officials...
Bill Pryor at badpuppy.comWhat happens when a married public official presents himself as heterosexual but leads a homosexual life in the shadows? It raises concerns about one of the ugliest words in...
View ArticleMark Fuller joins an infamous list of federal judges who managed to screw up...
Mark FullerIn the world of employment, being a U.S. judge has to be one of the sweetest gigs on the planet.You have a lifetime appointment and pretty much can't be fired, no matter how poorly you do...
View ArticleLate judge B. Avant Edenfield had help from 11th Circuit to hide corruption...
B. Avant EdenfieldThe recent death of federal judge B. Avant Edenfield reminds us that he was not alone in covering up hunting-club corruption in Alabama courts. Members of the U.S. Eleventh Circuit...
View ArticleWhether the topic is UAB football or Don Siegelman, al.com writer Chuck Dean...
UAB football at Legion FieldAn editorial at al.com today suggests UAB shouldn't have a football program because it has a medical center--and we all know that universities with medical centers have...
View ArticleDo connections to Bill Baxley explain Claud Neilson's appointment and...
Bill BaxleyMany questions linger over the Rob Riley/Liberty Duke defamation lawsuit that led to my five-month incarceration, but these are two of the biggest: (1) How did Judge Claud Neilson get called...
View ArticleHearing to reverse $3.5-million default judgment in Jessica Medeiros Garrison...
A hearing to reverse a $3.5-million default judgment against me in the Jessica Medeiros Garrison defamation case is set to be heard at 10 a.m. on Thursday (June 18) in Room 600 of the Jefferson County...
View ArticleWhat was Rob Riley's sinister purpose for including my wife in defamation...
Carol Shuler, from her Facebook pageWhy did Alabama Republican operative Rob Riley and lobbyist Liberty Duke include my wife, Carol, as a defendant in their defamation lawsuit against me and the Legal...
View ArticleMuch of $3.5-million default judgment in Jessica Garrison case is built on...
How could this photo of Jessica Medeiros Garrisonand Luther Strange possibly be defamatory?An order granting a $3.5-million default judgment against me and the Legal Schnauzer blog appears to be based...
View ArticleDid Alabama officer commit a crime when he initiated a traffic stop to...
Was it a crime for an Alabama deputy to conduct a traffic stop of my wife and me in order to serve us with court papers in the Rob Riley/Liberty Duke defamation lawsuit? Does a recent U.S. Supreme...
View ArticleAlabama GOPer Rob Riley has a fractured relationship with the truth, leading...
Rob RileyWe have shown that Alabama Republican Rob Riley lied to The New York Times about the defamation lawsuit he and lobbyist Liberty Duke filed against my wife, Carol, and me. But why should Riley...
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