Ex parte Weaver, 570 So.2d 675 (Ala. 1990)

Private plaintiffs filed suit against Blue Cross of Alabama, alleging that it had improperly calculated its reserves. Plaintiffs later joined the Commissioner of Insurance as a defendant. The trial court held for the plaintiffs on the issue of reserve calculation. The Insurance Commissioner, as well as Blue Cross, filed an appeal and sought a writ…

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Ex parte State of Alabama et al. (Pet. For Writ of Mandamus) No. 1090808 (Ala. May 21, 2010)

The Governor of Alabama created a Gambling Task Force. The order created a special prosecutor to serve as the commander of the Task Force, who, in that capacity, had statewide jurisdiction for investigations and prosecutions. The task force was led by a current district attorney. After a raid during which equipment was confiscated, several suits…

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Ex parte King v. CVS Caremark Corporation, 59 So. 3d 21 (Ala. 2010)

A district attorney filed suit, in the name of the state, against a group of pharmacies, alleging violations of the state’s pharmacy and consumer laws. Before the parties filed answers, the Attorney General’s office filed a notice of dismissal of the complaints. After the district attorney filed a motion to strike the notice of dismissal,…

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Ex parte State of Alabama [Petition for Writ of Mandamus], No. 1120498 (Ala. Feb. 15, 2013).

An investigator with the Alabama attorney general’s office sought a search warrant for a facility where allegedly illegal gambling devices were located. The district court judge declined to issue the warrant because the sheriff of the county had certified the machines to be legal, so there was conflict between enforcers. The district court stated that…

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