By Kamora Porter, Appleseed Program Assistant
My name is Kamora Porter, and I am honored to be joining Alabama Appleseed as the Program Assistant for Parole and Reentry. As a recent graduate of Emory University, where I earned two degrees
On August 28, 2026, FERC granted Hillsboro Solar, LLC’s (Hillsboro) authorization to make wholesale sales of electric energy, capacity, and ancillary services at market-based rates (MBR) on the condition that Hillsboro adopt the same market power mitigation as Hillsboro’s affiliate,
By Eddie Burkhalter and Carla Crowder
Seven years after the United States Department of Justice first documented unconstitutional levels of violence, sexual assault, and excessive force by guards fueled by extreme mismanagement, dysfunction and corruption across Alabama’s prison system for
In Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Williams, No. 4:24-cv-00357-CLM, 2026 WL 2569485 (N.D. Ala. Aug. 31, 2026), an ERISA interpleader case over a General Motors life insurance policy, District Judge Corey L. Maze held that a participant’s attempt to
In Padilla-Madden v. Sandoval, Sandoval (Texas) and Madden (Alabama) made oral agreement for Madden to share trustee compensation. No. 04-25-00303-CV, 2026 Tex. App. LEXIS 2250 (Tex. App.—San Antonio March 11, 2026, pet. denied). Sandoval facilitated Madden’s appointment as trustee for
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher
In Alabama last year, both violent and property crime fell by a combined 7.5 percent, following a consistent trend of decreasing crime rates across the U.S., according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations crime data
Host Bill Derasmo is joined by founder and CEO Antonio Baclig of Inlyte Energy. Baclig was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article highlighting Inlyte’s sodium-iron battery technology, and announced the company’s first battery pack delivery to an energy
In July 2026, OpenAI released an experimental AI cybersecurity model for internal testing. The model allegedly gained unauthorized access to several computer networks, resulting in an attack on Hugging Face, a widely used open-source AI platform that offers computation tools
The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a district court injunction that had blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order overhauling mail-in voting, ruling in a per curiam opinion that the states that brought the challenge had not shown an injury
If you’ve ever watched a bracket-style competition — March Madness, a baking show, take your pick — you know the format: a lot of contestants, a panel that has seen it all, and weeks that feel a lot longer to
