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   State Courts - Alabama - July 29 - August 5, 2005

  
Buist v. Time Domain Corp., 1031396, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, July 29, 2005, Released
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Overview: Trial court erred in granting summary judgment to corporation, its officers, and its directors on the stockholder's claim against them under the Alabama Securities Act, Ala. Code ? 8-6-1 et seq., as they did not show his state claim was preempted by federal regulations and, thus, that there was no material issue of fact regarding his state claim.

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Ex parte G.C., 1040001, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, July 29, 2005, Released
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Overview: Where father abdicated decisions over welfare of child to maternal grandparents, did not assist in child's care, and asserted parental rights three years after knowing he was the father, during which time child lived with grandparents, he voluntarily relinquished custody; he admitted all factors used to determine he was unfit to have custody.

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Ex parte Haynes Downard Andra & Jones, LLP, 1040657, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, July 29, 2005, Released
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Overview: Since Ala. Code ? 6-3-7(d) applied only to corporations, it had no application to an action against partnership and partner (PP); the limited venue of a division of a county circuit court to actions arising inside the division meant that claims against PP had to be severed and transferred; PP's petition for mandamus relief was granted.

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Ex parte Perkins, CR-04-1713, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, July 29, 2005, Decided
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Overview: Although under Ala. R. Crim. P. 32, defendant was entitled to discover records held by specific agencies and courts that related to his ineffective assistance of counsel claims, he was not entitled, inter alia, to material that constituted work-product, his relatives' files, or, pursuant to Ala. Code ? 15-22-36(b), the parole board's files.

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Fortis Benefits Ins. Co. v. Pinkley, 1040125, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, July 29, 2005, Released
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Overview: Insurers paid life insurance death benefits to insured's wife's daughter instead of to wife under change of beneficiary form fraudulently obtained, filled out, forged, and sent to insurers. As insurers received no notice of competing claim or interest in policy before paying daughter's claim, Ala. Code ? 27-14-24 protected them from wife's claim.

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G.E.A. v. D.B.A., 2040392, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, July 29, 2005, Released
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Overview: Wife paid filing fee for contempt petition, and husband's claim that wife did not bring independent action by filing contempt action was meritless. Where husband had, in motion to trial court and appeal, indicated that judgment was in favor of wife, his liability was established, through law of case doctrine, despite any purported ambiguity.

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Blackmon v. State, CR-01-2126, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 5, 2005, Released
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Overview: Defendant was properly sentenced for capital murder under Ala. Code ? 13A-5-40(a)(15) after killing 28-month-old daughter; on plain error review under Ala. R. App. P. 45A, court rejected challenges and found pretrial publicity did not warrant venue change and Apprendi rule was not violated as death penalty aggravator was in criminal offense.

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Kohler Co. v. Miller, 2030976, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 5, 2005, Released
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Overview: Where a worker did not present substantial evidence that she suffered from the kind of debilitating pain that impaired the body as a whole, she was limited to an award for a scheduled injury under Ala. Code ? 25-5-57(a)(3)a.24, and the trial court's whole body award was error. Summary judgment in favor of a subsequent employer was proper.

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