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Encyclopedia > Alabama Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. A U.S. state is any one of the fifty states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, along with the District of Columbia, form the United States of America. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 30th 52,423 mi²/135,775 km² 190 mi/306 km 330 mi/531 km 3. ... The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth- or other countries with an Anglosaxon type of justice, such as the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the Supreme... Associate Justice or Puisne (pronounced puny) Justice is the title for a member of a judicial panel who is not the Chief Justice. ...


The current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama is Drayton Nabers, Jr.


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THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT ON SLAVES (17739 words)
The court ruled that she was presumed to be a slave and could not sue for freedom on a writ of habeas corpus.
The lower court ruled in favor of Clifton because in 1812 recording of such a deed was not among the official duties of the clerk of the court.
Alabama statutes prohibited the in-state manumission of slaves, which was not the case with AtwoodÂ’s heirs.
FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code (7808 words)
The Court of Civil Appeals also held that the mother could provide a better home because she was now sober, she had been active in the children's extracurricular programs when they lived with her, and there was no evidence indicating her homosexual relationship would have a detrimental effect on the well-being of the children.
Alabama's courts, even beyond the context of a custody dispute, have expressed a moral revulsion to homosexual activity, reminiscent of that expressed by Sir William Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.
Although the Court referred to Britain's 1967 "decriminalization of homosexual behavior by consenting adults in private," id., the Court explained that the nation's earlier history, law, and literature counseled otherwise and "[testified] alike to the generally recognized baseness of the crime, and the word infamous is usually found as a concomitant epithet." 55 Ala.
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