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   State Courts - Alabama - June 17, 2005

  
C.L. v. D.H., 2030791, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, June 17, 2005, Released
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Overview: Modification of a prior custody order was appealable, despite the fact that the court had set a future hearing, as said hearing was properly set to monitor the circumstances of the parties. Further, because the appeals court did not make arguments for the parties, absent a sufficient evidence claim by the mother, the modification order was upheld.

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City of Mobile v. Taylor, 2021006, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, June 17, 2005, Released
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Overview: As two elderly homeowners put forth sufficient evidence that they suffered mental anguish from flooding which allegedly was caused by city's negligence, including a loss of sleep and fear of electrocution, judgment as a matter of law against them was properly denied. Reversal was warranted due to an erroneous instruction on the zone of danger test.

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Ex parte Dir., State Dep't of Indus. Rels., 1031724, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, June 17, 2005, Released
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Overview: Seamen who worked 60-day period on board a vessel followed by 30 days of scheduled "swing time," which was time off, were not unemployed during swing time under Ala. Code ? 25-4-71; thus, they were not entitled to unemployment benefits. They were also not entitled to benefits because time off was in accordance with collective bargaining agreement.

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Headrick v. Headrick, 2030690, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, June 17, 2005, Released
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Overview: Though Custody and Domestic or Family Abuse Act, Ala. Code ?? 30-3-131, -133, had rebuttable presumption against perpetrator of domestic violence having custody, findings that neither parent was threat to abuse the child and neither was better parent rebutted it; however, alternating physical custody was too disruptive for child's best interest.

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Hess v. Mkt. Inv. Co., LLC, 1031713, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, June 17, 2005, Released
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Overview: Because an oral contract to convey an interest in property was not the result of the transferee's purchase of that interest, but as compensation for services he rendered, exempting it from the Statute of Frauds, and a fact question remained as to the transferee's legal status, summary judgment against him was reversed.

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Malsch v. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., 1031854, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, June 17, 2005, Released
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Overview: Where a helicopter manufacturer showed that helicopter crew members' claims for injuries from a crash arose outside of Alabama and that an alternative forum existed in California, where the crash occurred, dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds under Ala. Code ? 6-5-430 was proper.

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McIver v. Bondy's Ford, Inc., 2030776, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, June 17, 2005, Released
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Overview: Because nothing in the record satisfied the requirements of Ala. Code ? 34-3-21 as to a writing entered in open court relating to an alleged settlement agreement between the parties and the court's bench notes on a case action summary sheet were insufficient, the trial court erred when it entered a judgment enforcing the purported agreement.

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Parker Bldg. Servs. Co. v. Lightsey, 1031377, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, June 17, 2005, Released
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Overview: Trial court erred in charging jury it could find repair contractor negligent per se if jury found repair contractor violated building code provisions; a violation of such a provision could be negligence per se if the provision was enacted to protect a class of persons and, in the present case, the provisions instead protected the general public.

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Pharmacia Corp. v. McGowan, 1031016, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, June 17, 2005, Released
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Overview: Because a trial court assessed a reasonable attorney's fee of $ 248,000 in a mass-tort case in favor of a GAL without evidence of the time she spent on the matter representing 568 wards, but the record indicated that she performed substantially less work than was represented by said award, the trial court abused its discretion.

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Pope v. Gordon, 1031384, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, June 17, 2005, Released
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Overview: Ala. Code ? 6-9-237 required that, for purposes of recording a foreign judgment in the probate court, an authenticated copy of that judgment, authenticated and properly filed in a circuit court for domestication, had to be filed in the probate office of the county in which the foreign judgment was filed for domestication.

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