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   State Courts - Alabama - October 10, 2008
  
R.H. v. D.N., 2061155, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, October 10, 2008, Released
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Overview: As a child's mother established through affidavits of substantial hardship and letters that she could not afford to retain her own counsel in pending dependency proceedings, and she did not waive her right to counsel, the trial court reversibly erred and violated Ala. Code ? 12-15-63(b) by refusing to appoint counsel to represent her.

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Thompson v. Patton, 1061540, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, October 10, 2008, Released
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Overview: In suit alleging wrongful death and malpractice, expert testimony indicating that psychiatrist's alleged negligence in discharging patient could have possibly caused patient's suicide was not substantial evidence of proximate causation under Ala. Code ? 6-5-549, as there had to be expert testimony that alleged negligence probably caused suicide.

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Williams v. Moore, 2070284, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, October 10, 2008, Released
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Overview: Claimant to real property did not establish 10-year prescriptive period needed to prevail on her claim of adverse possession under Ala. Code ? 6-5-200, because she had no color of title to disputed property after the entry of a final judgment in a prior lawsuit, in which she was a party, deciding the issue of property ownership adversely to her.

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