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   State Courts - Alabama - September 12, 2008
  
Burlington Ins. Co. v. Fluid Servs., 2070185, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, September 12, 2008, Released
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Overview: A door-closing statute, Ala. Code ? 10-2B-15.02(a), constitutionally barred a foreign insurer's breach of contract suit against a commercial insured because, under the McCarran Ferguson Act, the State was permitted to preclude insurers lacking certificates of authority from enforcing policies in Alabama courts without offending the Commerce Clause.

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C.T. v. Calhoun County Dep't of Human Res., 2070588, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, September 12, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Mother's parental rights were properly terminated, as department of human resources presented evidence of its recent attempts to locate relative placements for child, it could not have investigated a relative mother had never mentioned, and there was no direct evidence this relative was willing to take the child or was a suitable placement.

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Carroll v. Williams, 1060832, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, September 12, 2008, Released
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Corwin v. Corwin, 2070259, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, September 12, 2008, Released
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Overview: Judgment denying contempt petition was reversed as a mother was not required to take any steps, in the probate court or otherwise, to "preserve" the child-support arrearage. Although under Ala. Code ? 26-10A-29(b), the adoption relieved the father of any further duty to support the child, it did not affect the accrued child-support arrearage.

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Crosslin v. Health Care Auth. of Huntsville, 1051537, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, September 12, 2008, Released
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D & E Invs., L.L.C. v. Singleton, 2051014, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, September 12, 2008, Released
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Ex parte Burr & Forman, 1060801, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, September 12, 2008, Released
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Ex parte Ferguson, 2070577, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, September 12, 2008, Released
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Overview: Petition for writ of mandamus was denied as husband did not change his domicile from Alabama to China for purposes of Ala. Code ? 30-2-5 as he owned property in Alabama, and claimed parties' Alabama house as permanent residence on all official documents and on his federal and state income-tax returns.

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Franklin v. Etheridge, 2060962, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, September 12, 2008, Released
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Overview: Judgment was reversed as trial court relied on expert testimony that was based on facts not in evidence, including assumptions that all monthly payments had been made through August 1995, and that no payments had been made from September 1995 until October 3, 1997.

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Gullett v. Gullett, 2070007, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, September 12, 2008, Released
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Overview: Court lost jurisdiction to rule on husband's Ala. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motion that was filed past time allowed by Ala. R. App. P. 4(a)(1). Even if treated as an Ala. R. Civ. P. 77(d) motion, trial court lost jurisdiction 73 days after entry of its judgment; Rule 4 allowed 42 days to appeal, Ala. R. Civ. P. 59 allowed 30 days, and 72nd day was Sunday.

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