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   State Courts - Alabama - July 7 - July 14, 2006
  
Carpenter v. Tillman, 1030694, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, July 7, 2006, Released
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Overview: Ala. Code ? 14-6-81 vested state corrections department with very broad discretion as to inspections of county jails; since nothing in federal trial court's certified question suggested failure to inspect was anything but exercise of that discretion, neither corrections department nor department employees could be held liable for detainee's death.

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Ex parte Addiction & Mental Health Servs., 1041820, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, July 7, 2006, Released
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Overview: In a case in which patient claimed health services company breached its duty to him by divulging to third parties confidential information regarding his treatment, because company failed to establish a legal right to have the case transferred to another court pursuant to Ala. Code ? 6-5-546, its motion for change of venue was properly denied.

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State v. Chesson, 2050016, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, July 7, 2006, Released
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Coffey v. Moore, 1031268, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, July 14, 2006, Decided
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Overview: A bailee of a rented vehicle was not a guest of a friend while riding in the vehicle for purposes of Alabama's guest statute, Ala. Code ? 32-1-2; the friend's classification as a guest under the guest statute was determined at the inception of the journey, and the simple act of changing drivers did nothing to affect or alter this classification.

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Ex parte City of Greensboro, 1031591, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, July 14, 2006, Released
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Overview: Because a court clerk clearly performed a judicial function by making certain decisions and undertaking specific actions to ensure that the arrest warrants were recalled, the clerk and the city were entitled to absolute judicial immunity and a writ of mandamus directing the entry of summary judgment in their favor.

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