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The Alabama Circuit Courts are the state trial courts of general jurisdiction in the State of Alabama.The Circuit Courts have jurisdiction to hear civil and criminal cases. For civil cases, the courts has authority to try cases with an amount in controversy of more than $3,000 and has exclusive original jurisdiction over claims for more than $10,000. [1]
Supreme Court of Alabama [1] Alabama Court of Civil Appeals [2] Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals [3] Alabama Circuit Courts (41 circuits) [4] Alabama District Courts (67 districts) [4] Alabama Municipal Courts (273 courts) [4] Alabama Probate Courts (68 courts) [4] Alabama Court of the Judiciary [5] Federal courts located in Alabama. Map of U ...
This court was created by the Evarts Act on June 16, 1891, which moved the circuit judges and appellate jurisdiction from the Circuit Courts of the Fifth Circuit to this court. At the time of its creation, the Fifth Circuit covered Florida , Georgia , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , and Texas .
Decision was reversed by Eleventh Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court, both ruling that it violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County (1987) – Court rules that textbooks promoting secular humanism were unconstitutional, running contrary to the Establishment Clause of the First ...
The Court is composed of the following: The Chief Judge of the Court, an appellate judge chosen by the Supreme Court from a court other than the Supreme Court. Two circuit judges and one district judge, chosen by the District Judges' Association. Two members of the Alabama State Bar and chosen by them. Three nonlegal professionals appointed by ...
The decision of the court led Congress to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009. United States v. Alabama (2011) – The court upheld most parts of Alabama HB 56, an anti-illegal immigration bill signed by Governor Robert J. Bentley. The Eleventh Circuit reversed, invalidating much of Alabama HB 56. [6]
Lee v. Macon County Board of Education (1963) – Court rules segregation in schooling was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment. Decision upheld by U.S. Supreme Court. [4] United States v. Alabama (1966) – Court rules poll tax violates the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment.
The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for staggered six-year terms. The Supreme Court is housed in the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. [1]