The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama well-known for its efforts in advancing civil rights and racial justice, particularly in the South. Over the past several decades, the SPLC was particularly known
Montgomery Alabama Applebee’s tied to Hepatitis A scare
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH), in cooperation with Applebee’s Restaurant in Montgomery, is investigating a food handler who is infected with hepatitis A virus. As a preventative measure, ADPH is suggesting customers who consumed food, whether dine-in, pickup,
A Name On A Piece of Paper – by Jacques Chouinard
In 1903, Jackson W. Giles filed a lawsuit alleging that the board of registrars of Montgomery County, Alabama had engaged in widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters. The case, Giles v. Harris, eventually landed on the desk of Supreme Court Justice
Where are the Statutes of Women? Sidelining Women in American Iconography
Melissa Weresh, Gauzy Allegory and the Construction of Gender, 25 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 7 (2018)In August 2017, violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia when white nationalists arrived to protest the removal of a statue memorializing Confederacy
“The Teflon Robe”
A disturbing survey of the consequences of judicial misconduct from Reuters by MICHAEL BERENS and JOHN SHIFFMAN in Montgomery, AlabamaIn the first comprehensive accounting of judicial misconduct nationally, Reuters reviewed 1,509 cases from the last dozen years – 2008 through 2019
Former AG (and now Senate candidate) Jeff Sessions laments some of the sentence reductions in the FIRST STEP Act
In large part due to Prez Trump’s support for the FIRST STEP Act, even the usual suspects in the “tough-and-tougher” crowd are disinclined to be too critical of this law. But, given that former Attorney General Jeff Sessions spent much
Job Descriptions Must Accurately Reflect True Job Duties
A recent case from a federal court highlights the importance of accurate job descriptions. In Wiggins v. City of Montgomery, Plaintiff applied for a promotion to the position of Revenue Examiner on three occasions over an eight-year period, most recently
The 8th nominee for the “worst employer of 2019” is … the lascivious leader
I can’t do any better of job than the EEOC did in describing the parade of horribles the one supervisor wrought at Sys-Con, a Montgomery, Alabama, general contractor:
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from December 2015 to May 2017, a
Yet another reason food handlers should be vaccinated against Hepatitis A
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH), in cooperation with Panera Bread in Montgomery, is investigating a food handler who is infected with hepatitis A virus.
As a preventative measure, ADPH is suggesting customers who consumed food, whether dine-in, pickup,
Man files lawsuit after AL county denies marriage to computer – WSFA.com Montgomery Alabama news.
A man trying to marry his computer is suing Alabama for not recognizing the marriage, according to a federal lawsuit.via www.wsfa.com