Court documents show lawyers from Maynard Cooper Gale are filing documents...
Offices of Maynard Cooper Gale in downtown Birmingham(From fravert.com)Taxpayers are on the hook for up to $200,000 in legal fees to defend Gov. Robert Bentley and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA)...
View ArticleAshley Madison customers, unhappy at being outed here, have created a fake AM...
New Ashley Madison logo: "Find Your Moment"How do Ashley Madison (AM) customers, or their supporters, deal with a reporter who has written about their presence on the extramarital-affair Web site?...
View ArticleConservative tribalism, which places loyalty to the "tribe" over loyalty to...
"Yella Fella" Jimmy Rane: Part of Mike Hubbard's tribeThe Mike Hubbard trial in Alabama, which ended with the former House Speaker being convicted on 12 counts of violating state ethics law, clearly...
View ArticleU.S. Judge Madeline Haikala threw out charges against officer in Sureshbhai...
U.S. Judge Madeline Haikala(From al.com)(Third in a series)For more than two years, the news has been littered with cases of police brutality. When gunmen in Dallas and Baton Rouge recently opened fire...
View ArticleJessica Medeiros Garrison, who apparently bought a $440,000 Mountain Brook...
House at 119 Main Street, Mountain Brook(From trulia.com)Alabama Republican operative Jessica Medeiros Garrison, whose 2012 purchase of a $439,900 house in exclusive Mountain Brook contributed to...
View ArticleBartnicki v. Vopper is the SCOTUS case that lets journalists report on stolen...
A federal judge in St. Louis recently ruled that hacked data from Ashley Madison could not be entered as evidence in ongoing lawsuits against the extramarital-affair Web site and its parent company,...
View ArticleDon Siegelman: Conservatives now pushing for a lottery in Alabama railed...
Don SiegelmanHow absurd is it that a "Christian," Republican governor is proposing a lottery to help deal with Alabama's budget crisis? Former Alabama governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat, probably would...
View ArticleGOP operative Jessica Garrison, best known as AG Luther Strange's mistress,...
House at 212 Dexter Avenue in Mountain Brook(From zillow.com)Republican operative Jessica Medeiros Garrison, mistress and former campaign manager for Attorney General Luther Strange, has bought a...
View ArticleDon Siegelman: "Christian" conservatives, who torpedoed 1999 education...
Don SiegelmanHow deep is the irony that "Christian" conservatives now are proposing an Alabama lottery to prop up the state's general budget, which is cratering largely because of Medicaid expenses?...
View ArticleDid Missouri Sheriff Jim Arnott commit a federal crime when he ordered my...
Greene County, Missouri, Sheriff Jim Arnott(From KSPR)Outrage about police misconduct has grown this summer to the point that some members of the public have chosen to fight violence with violence --...
View ArticleRecords indicate Alabama police officer Eric Parker lied about three critical...
Officer Eric Parker(From npr.org)(Fourth post in a series)The Alabama police officer who body slammed a grandfather from India and left him partially paralyzed lied about three key issues in the case,...
View ArticleEven 11th Circuit, to which he now is nominated, admitted that Abdul Kallon...
Abdul Kallon(From al.com)With the public's attention recently focused on political conventions and the horrifying notion that Donald Trump might gain access to nuclear codes, many Americans probably...
View ArticleEvidence is overwhelming that Missouri sheriff Jim Arnott committed a federal...
Jim Arnott, sheriff of Greene County, Missouri, almost certainly committed a federal crime when he ordered my wife, Carol, to be arrested and imprisoned in the aftermath of an unlawful eviction last...
View ArticleJessica Medeiros Garrison's purchase of an $835,000 house in Mountain Brook...
Jessica Medeiros Garrison and Luther StrangeJessica Medeiros Garrison's recent purchase of an $835,000 home in Mountain Brook pops a hole in the $3.5-million default judgment Jefferson County Circuit...
View ArticleIn telephone interview, Alabama steel executive Bill Upton was not anxious to...
Steel manufacturing in ChinaBill Upton, president of Pelham-based Vulcan Steel Products, has not been shy about speaking out on issues that affect his industry. For example, Upton has been outspoken...
View ArticleNew phone tape captures Alabama's "Luv Guv," Robert Bentley, calling me a...
A taped phone conversation released yesterday captures Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley calling your humble blogger a "slimy guy." Bentley also makes a negative reference to attorney Donald Watkins. The...
View ArticleCalifornia biotech company, a Stanford University startup, sues UAB and...
A California biotechnology-research company has filed a federal lawsuit against UAB and one of its veteran researchers, alleging a breach of contracts that caused $11 million in financing to fall...
View ArticleIn the speech where he hinted that gun nuts might want to assassinate Hillary...
Donald Trump during his "Second Amendment people" speech(From cnn.com)When GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump seemed to suggest last week that "Second Amendment People" might want to assassinate...
View ArticleFailure to provide lawful notice makes Jessica Medeiros Garrison's...
Jessica Medeiros Garrison and Alabama AG Luther StrangeGOP operative Jessica Medeiros Garrison took to the Web last fall to crow about a $3.5-million default judgment an Alabama circuit judge awarded...
View ArticlePennsylvania attorney general is convicted of perjuy, in a trial that...
Pennsylvania AG Kathleen Kane(From ijr.com)If you think Alabama politics is sleazy . . . well, check out what's going on in Pennsylvania.Kathleen Kane, the Democratic attorney general of Pennsylvania,...
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