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Born. ( 1978-01-04) January 4, 1978 (age 46) Gadsden, Alabama, U.S. Education. Auburn University ( BA) Georgetown University ( JD) Corey Landon Maze (born January 4, 1978) [ 1] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama .
In the United States, a state court has jurisdiction over disputes with some connection to a U.S. state. State courts handle the vast majority of civil and criminal cases in the United States; the United States federal courts are far smaller in terms of both personnel and caseload, and handle different types of cases. [ 1][ 2] States often ...
The Alabama Circuit Courts are the state trial courts of general jurisdiction in the State of Alabama.The Circuit Courts have jurisdiction to hear civil and criminal cases. For civil cases, the courts has authority to try cases with an amount in controversy of more than $3,000 and has exclusive original jurisdiction over claims for more than $10,000.
Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the US Supreme Court, which ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk even though the sidewalk was part of a privately-owned company town. The Court based its ruling on the provisions of the First ...
Capital punishment in Alabama is a legal penalty. Alabama has the highest per capita capital sentencing rate in the United States. In some years, its courts impose more death sentences than Texas, a state that has a population five times as large. [1] However, Texas has a higher rate of executions both in absolute terms and per capita.
In 2022, just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the state’s abortion ban kicked in, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, said on a radio show that ...
Liles C. Burke. Liles Clifton Burke (born June 11, 1969) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. His official duty station is the United States Courthouse at Huntsville, Alabama. He previously was an Associate Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals .
On January 31, 2018, a Randolph County sheriff's deputy showed up at Greg and Teresa Almond's house in Woodland, Alabama, to serve Greg court papers in a civil matter. The deputy reported that he ...