Dodd v. Consolidated Forest Products
Aug 21, 2015OUTCOME: Case reversed and remanded for further proceedings.
The Court of Civil Appeals ruled that the trial court should not have dismissed Plaintiff's fraud claims as untimely.
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OUTCOME: Case reversed and remanded for further proceedings.
The Court of Civil Appeals ruled that the trial court should not have dismissed Plaintiff's fraud claims as untimely.
OUTCOME: Case remanded for mother to be appointed counsel and receive new trial.
Mother appealed the termination of her parental rights.
OUTCOME: Conviction reversed.
Defendant appealed his conviction for unlawful manufacturing of methamphetamine. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that none of the series of indictments properly charged the offense and thus ... , the prosecution was barred by the statute of limitations.
OUTCOME: Jury awarded damages of $760,595.73.
Plaintiff alleged that Defendants breached an oral contract and were unjustly enriched by Plaintiff's work on surface mining project.
OUTCOME: Award of benefits to widow upheld.
Following enactment of the Affordable Health Care Act, widow of deceased miner who had suffered from "black lung," filed one of multiple claims for benefits. Mining company appealed decision to award ... benefits to widow.
OUTCOME: Conviction reversed and case remanded for new trial.
Defendant appealed his conviction for sexual abuse. The Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the trial court's error in admitting improper hearsay testimony was reversible error.
OUTCOME: Conviction reversed and case remanded for a new trial.
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals held that a prosecutor’s prejudicial comment during closing argument that the defendant needed to “admit what he [had] done and give [the victims] some peace” was ... not harmless because the evidence was far from overwhelming and the improper comment was made during rebuttal closing argument.
OUTCOME: Case reversed for trial court to award grandmother visitation.
The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled that the trial court erred by not awarding the paternal grandmother specific visitation with her grandchild.
OUTCOME: Case reversed for trial court to enter new order.
Divorce case where the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled that a trial court’s divorce decree ordering husband to obtain $150,000 in additional life insurance, to pay $1,000 in periodic alimony, to p ... ay $636 in monthly child support, and to pay the other court-ordered monthly monetary obligations (roughly totaling $1,500), as well as $7,500 in attorney’s fees to the wife, was “financially crippling” and, therefore, erroneous.