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Alabama Court Decisions

Select … Supreme Court (Ala.) * Court of Civil Appeals (Ala. Civ. App.) * Court of Criminal Appeals (Ala. Crim. App.) * * Not yet freely available. Select … Middle District (M.D. Ala.) Northern District (N.D. Ala.) Southern District (S.D. Ala.)
Additional Resources
¶ Recent opinions of the Supreme Court, Court of Civil Appeals, and Court of Criminal Appeals … Subscription service offering access to court opinions.

Alabama Constitution and Legislation

1. Constitution (Ala. Const.)
   Additional Resources
   ¶ Alabama Constitutions 1819–1901 … [Ala. Leg.] — Texts of the six constitutions that have governed Alabama, along with historical commentary. This is an alternative source for the text of the 1901 constitution (the current one), including a search form.
   Bills • Resolutions
   While legislative business is not adequately documented on the legislature’s web site, bills and resolutions can be viewed on the ALISON web site by the method outlined below.

   1. ALISON Web Site
      The Alabama Legislative Information Service Online (ALISON) provides available information, but using the web site is not easy. Follow the steps below to identify a bill or resolution of interest. Then use the “Bills and Resolutions by Number” drop-down list, below, to find the text of that bill or resolution.
      1. On the ALISON web site, click on the “Session” label, top left corner of the screen, for a drop-down list of all legislative sessions back through 2000. Select a session and click the “Set” button.
      2. For a list of all enacted bills in the session (with topical summaries), on the menu select “Bills” and “By Selected Status.” Then:
         Select “House & Senate” [Which Bills]
         Select “Enacted” [Instrument Status]
         Click the “Get Bills Status” button
      3. For a similar list of adopted resolutions, follow the preceding steps but replace “Bills” with “Resolutions.”
      4. For a list of all bills in the session, on the menu select “Bills” and “By Selected Matter Transaction.” Then:
         Select “House & Senate” [Which Bills]
         Select “{All}” [Instrument Matter Transaction]
         Select “{All}” [Legislative Day]
         Click the “Get Bills by Transaction” button
      5. For lists of bills or resolutions meeting other criteria, make appropriate selections, in the manner described above, using the menus and drop-down lists on the ALISON web site.
   2. Bills and Resolutions by Number
      Select … 2009 Regular Session 2008 1st Special Session 2008 Regular Session 2007 1st Special Session 2007 Regular Session 2006 Regular Session 2005 1st Special Session 2005 Regular Session 2004 1st Special Session 2004 Regular Session 2003 2nd Special Session 2003 1st Special Session 2003 Regular Session 2002 Regular Session 2001 4th Special Session 2001 3rd Special Session 2001 2nd Special Session 2001 1st Special Session 2001 Regular Session 2000 Regular Session 1999 2nd Special Session 1999 Regular Session 1998 Regular Session
      To view the text of a bill or resolution, first select a legislative session in this drop-down list to see links to the texts of all bills for that session, grouped as fiscal notes (FN), house bills (HB), and senate bills (SB), and sorted alphabetically (therefore, bill numbers are not in strictly numerical order). Find the bill of interest, and click on its link. To find resolutions from the same session, click on the link “[To Parent Directory]” at the top of the bill-list page, then click on “Resolutions.”

   Acts of Alabama (Ala. Acts)
   Select … 2000 Enrolled Acts — Regular Session 1999 Enrolled Acts — Second Special Session 1999 Enrolled Acts — Regular Session 1998 Enrolled Acts

   Code of Alabama (Ala. Code)
   See also uniform laws.

   Additional Resources

   ¶ Code of Alabama … This is an alternative source for the text of the code, including a search form.
   ¶ Code of Alabama … [Onecle, Inc. (Cal.)] — This version is browsable only (there is no search form), with no indication of whether the content is current.

Alabama Rules of Procedure and Practice

Court Rules • Rules of Procedure
Alabama State Rules Select … Rules of Juvenile Procedure Child Support Guidelines Select … Middle District (M.D. Ala. R.) Northern District (N.D. Ala. R.) Southern District (S.D. Ala. R.) Select … Middle District (M.D. Ala. Bankr. R.) Northern District (N.D. Ala. Bankr. R.) Southern District (S.D. Ala. Bankr. R.)
1. Rules of Practice • Professional Ethics Decisions
   Judicial Inquiry Commission Advisory Opinions
   Additional Resources
   ¶ U.S. District Court for the Northern District

   Alternative Dispute Resolution Plan Guidelines for Conduct of Trials Jury Selection Plan

Alabama Administrative Law Sources

1. Regulations
   Alabama Administrative Code (Ala. Admin. Code)
   Alabama Administrative Monthly
   Revenue Department — Rules
   Opinions • Decisions • Orders • Rulings
   Select … Attorney General Opinions (Ops. Ala. Att’y Gen.) Revenue Department—Administrative Law Judge Rulings     —Revenue Procedures     —Revenue Rulings
   Additional Resources
   ¶ Revenue Department Assessment Procedures … Diagram of the assessment process; a description of preliminary assessment appeal rights; and a description of final assessment appeal rights.

Alabama Ordinances and Home-Rule Charters

Municipal Codes of Principal Cities
Auburn Huntsville Mobile Montgomery Tuscaloosa  
A municipal code is linked here if the city is the capital or one of the five largest cities in the state or has a population exceeding 100,000.
1. Home-Rule Charters
   State law does not authorize “home rule” for municipalities or counties, which therefore do not have charters.

Alabama Law-Related Periodicals

1. Addendum … [Alabama State Bar] — Official newsletter of the state bar. The current issue is on-line.
2. Alabama Law Review (Ala. L. Rev.)

Other Alabama Commentary

1. Annual Eleventh Circuit Survey … [Mercer Univ. Sch. of Law] — The Mercer Law Review publishes the Eleventh Circuit survey as the summer issue each year.

2. Doing Business in Alabama. Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C. … [Lex Mundi]

Alabama Law-Related Topical Web Sites

Alabama Court Information

Web Sites
See a chart of the Alabama state court system on the web site of the National Center for State Courts.
Select … Supreme Court Court of Civil Appeals Court of Criminal Appeals Select … 6th Circuit 10th Circuit 13th Circuit 14th Circuit 15th Circuit 23rd Circuit 28th Circuit [1] 28th Circuit [2] Select … 18th Circuit 23rd Circuit 25th Circuit 30th Circuit Select … Cullman County Walker County Select … Baldwin County Escambia County Etowah County Jefferson County Mobile County Montgomery County Shelby County Select … Athens Auburn Birmigham Decatur Gadsden Hoover Huntsville Mobile Montgomery Prattville Tuscaloosa Select … Middle District Northern District Southern District Select … Middle District Northern District Southern District
Addresses • Names • Numbers
Select … Circuit Courts Select … Cullman County Courts Escambia County Courts

Alabama Forms

1. Ethics Commission — Forms … Forms are in PDF files.
   Revenue Department
   Select … Business Privilege Tax Forms Corporation Income Tax Forms Partnership, Fiduciary, and Estate Tax Forms Financial Institutions Excise Tax Forms Individual Income Tax Forms and Information Property Tax Forms Sales and Use Tax Forms Subchapter-K-Entity/Partnership Income Tax Forms Withholding Tax Forms
   Forms may be in PDF files. Some forms for the current year (and some past years) can be completeed on-line.

2. Business Entity Forms … [Paracorp, Inc. (Cal.)] — Convenient interface to view and print in-blank official state forms (in PDF files) for filing by business entities. A JavaScript-enabled browser is required.

Other Alabama Resources

Government-Related Web Sites
Select … Legislature Alabama Law Institute Attorney General Revenue Department Secretary of State Taxpayer Advocacy Office
See also the Piper Resources list of sites.
Additional Resources
¶ Vital Records — Contact Information … [Elizabeth Orsay (Ind.)]
¶ Workers’ Compensation — Agency Contact Information … [Robert W. McDowell / N.C. Indus. Comm’n]
Bar Associations • Law-Related Organizations
Select … Alabama State Bar Alabama Association for Justice [formerly: Trial Lawyers Association] Alabama Defense Lawyers Association Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program Select … Birmingham Bar Association Mobile Bar Association
See the National Federation of Paralegal Associations for links to websites of member organizations.
Law Schools • Admission to Practice • Continuing Legal Education
Select … Continuing Legal Education—Alabama State Bar Select … Admission to the Alabama State Bar Select … Birmingham School of Law Cumberland School of Law (Samford University) Thomas Goode Jones School of Law (Faulkner University) University of Alabama School of Law

Legal Research and Assistance

Law Libraries
Select … Alabama State Law Library Select … Jefferson County Select … Faulkner University — George H. Jones, Jr. Law Library Samford University — Lucille Stewart Beeson Law Library (Cumberland Sch. of Law) University of Alabama — Bounds Law Library
See also links to web sites of public law libraries and catalogs of academic law libraries, maintained by the library at Washburn University School of Law; and the LibrarySites.Info database of library web sites (“Libcat”).
Research Guides
Select … A Legacy of Confusion: The Nominative Reports Finding Federal Legislative History Instructions to Juries Overview of Alabama Legal Treatises The Digest System: An Index to Case Law Updating Federal Regulations
These links point to the listed sources as they are found on the Internet Archive web site. The sources formerly were available on the web site of the library at the Cumberland School of Law.
1. Alabama State Bar Brochures … Brochures on legal topics of interest to the general public.

2. Bankruptcy Law and Procedures for Alabama Residents … [Calicchia & Kinast LLP (Ohio)] — This web site, presented by a Cleveland bankruptcy law firm, covers basic information about the bankruptcy process, describes debt consolidation and credit counseling as alternatives to bankruptcy, lists the property that an individual is allowed to keep (with citations to governing provisions of Alabama law), and gives information about the bankruptcy courts and how to contact bankruptcy attorneys in Alabama.

3. Low-Cost Legal Aid … See also the web site for LawHelp.org and the web site for SelfHelpSupport.org.
   1. Alabama Legal Help for the Poor … [Am. Bar Ass’n] — Contact information for statewide and local legal-aid programs, from the ABA’s Directory of Pro Bono Programs. The ABA also provides a page of links to pro bono programs’ web sites.
   2. WomensLaw.org — Sources of Legal Help … [WomensLaw.org (N.Y.)] — Sources of legal help (not limited to legal help for women) include statewide domestic-violence resources, local domestic-violence resources listed by city or town, free or low-cost legal services, and lawyer referral services.