(MONTGOMERY)—Attorney General Luther Strange said he is pleased by a federal court ruling yesterday that makes it clear that the Constitution does not prohibit Alabama courts from convicting defendants of capital murder and sentencing them to life imprisonment without parole even though they were 17 years old at the time of the murder. The 11th → Read the full story
(Montgomery) – Attorney General Luther Strange and 44 other attorneys general today called for information about how Backpage.com presumably attempts to remove advertising for sex trafficking, especially ads that could involve minors. In a letter to the online classified site’s lawyers, the attorneys general say that Backpage.com claims it has strict policies to prevent illegal → Read the full story
(MONTGOMERY)–Attorney General Luther Strange announced the arrest today of former Marshall County Commissioner Timothy Frank Bollinger for multiple felony charges of theft, ethics and campaign fund violations. Bollinger, 53, surrendered this afternoon to a special agent of the Attorney General’s Office at the Marshall County Jail. Attorney General Strange’s Public Corruption and White Collar Crime → Read the full story
(MONTGOMERY)–Attorney General Luther Strange today announced the indictment of a former nursing aide who is charged with assaulting a resident of a nursing home in Pell City. Aisha L. Embery, 34, of Pell City, was arrested yesterday by the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office, and has been released on bond. The Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud → Read the full story
Today Alabama, Florida, Alabama Power Company and the City of Apalachicola, Florida asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling made by a three-judge panel in June that focuses on how much water the city of Atlanta can withdraw from Lake Lanier and the Chattahoochee River. Following today’s filing, Attorney General Strange → Read the full story
(Montgomery) – Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange today praised a federal appeals court ruling striking down the individual mandate requirement of the 2010 “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”, otherwise known as “Obamacare.” Last year Alabama, along with 25 other states, the National Federation of Independent Business, and two individual plaintiffs, filed a lawsuit challenging → Read the full story
(Montgomery) – “This is an important case and I am pleased the Alabama Supreme Court has put the trial court’s order on hold until it has time to rule on the merits of the State’s appeal.” –30–
(MONTGOMERY)– Attorney General Luther Strange announced that a woman has been sentenced to serve two years in prison for stealing $130,000 of retirement savings from her hospitalized mother. Debra Davis pleaded guilty October 18, 2010, to first-degree theft, and on July 28, she received a sentence of 10 years imprisonment, of which she was ordered → Read the full story
(MONTGOMERY) – Citing the need to improve broadband service, especially in previously underserved rural areas, Attorney General Luther Strange yesterday encouraged the federal government to approve the proposed merger of wireless carriers AT&T and T-Mobile USA. Attorney General Strange said approval of the merger will improve residents’ lives and communities statewide, delivering high-speed broadband services → Read the full story
