15-9-81
Section 15-9-81 Adoption and text of agreement on detainers. The agreement on detainers is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all jurisdictions legally joining therein, in the form substantially as follows: AGREEMENT ON DETAINERS The contracting states solemnly agree that: Article I. The party states find that charges outstanding against a prisoner, detainers based on untried indictments, informations or complaints and difficulties in securing speedy trial of persons already incarcerated in other jurisdictions, produce uncertainties which obstruct programs of prisoner treatment and rehabilitation. Accordingly, it is the policy of the party states and the purpose of this agreement to encourage the expeditious and orderly disposition of such charges and determination of the proper status of any and all detainers based on untried indictments, informations or complaints. The party states also find that proceedings with reference to such charges...
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25-4-78
Section 25-4-78 Disqualifications for benefits. An individual shall be disqualified for total or partial unemployment for any of the following: (1) LABOR DISPUTE IN PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT. For any week in which an individual's total or partial unemployment is directly due to a labor dispute still in active progress in the establishment in which he or she is or was last employed. For the purposes of this section only, the term labor dispute includes any controversy concerning terms, tenure, or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee. This definition shall not relate to a dispute between an individual worker and his or her employer. (2) VOLUNTARILY QUITTING WORK. If an individual has left his or her most recent bona fide work voluntarily without good...
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12-5-9
Section 12-5-9 Administrative Director of Courts to assist Chief Justice with duties as administrative head of judicial system. The Administrative Director of Courts shall assist the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama in connection with the Chief Justice's duties as administrative head of the judicial system of Alabama, the Chief Justice's task of seeing that the business of the courts of the state is attended with proper dispatch and the Chief Justice's task that the dockets of court are not permitted to become congested and that trials and appeals of cases are not delayed unreasonably. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §11-101.)...
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12-2-30
Section 12-2-30 Powers and duties as to supervision and administration of courts generally. (a) The Chief Justice shall see that the business of the several courts of the state is attended with proper dispatch and that cases, civil and criminal, are not permitted to become congested or delayed, and he shall take care that prisoners are not allowed to remain in the jails without a prompt trial. (b) In connection with these duties and other responsibilities, the Chief Justice is authorized and empowered: (1) To maintain a roster of supernumerary circuit judges who are willing and able to undertake special duties from time to time and to assign supernumerary circuit judges in accordance with the provisions of law and, further, to assign supernumerary circuit judges and circuit judges, provided they are agreeable, in connection with studies, projects and functions designed to improve the administration of justice and the courts in Alabama and in connection with projects, studies and...
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12-2-70
Section 12-2-70 Appointment. The Chief Justice and each associate justice of the Supreme Court are hereby authorized to appoint one law clerk to assist the appointing justice in the performance of his duties. (Acts 1953, No. 443, p. 549, §1.)...
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12-9A-7
Section 12-9A-7 Temporary assignment of circuit or district judge to another circuit. (a) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, by order, shall assign a circuit or district judge from a judicial circuit to serve within another judicial circuit for a reasonable period of time to address court congestion, court delay, civil and criminal backlog of cases, or for any other reason necessary for the prompt and thorough administration of justice. (b) When considering the amount of time a judge may be assigned from his or her home circuit to another circuit, the Chief Justice shall take into consideration all relevant circumstances regarding the judicial needs of the circuits involved. (c) A judge assigned to serve another circuit under subsection (a) shall be reimbursed for any necessary and reasonable expenses of travel and the same maintenance expense allowances from the State Treasury that the judge would be entitled to receive when attending court or transacting other...
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12-9A-1
Section 12-9A-1 Creation and composition; duties. (a) A permanent study commission on the judicial resources in Alabama is hereby created and shall be known as the Judicial Resources Allocation Commission. The commission shall be composed of the following members: (1) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who shall serve as chair. (2) The legal advisor to the Governor of Alabama. (3) The Alabama Attorney General. (4) Three incumbent circuit judges appointed by the President of the Circuit Judges Association, one of whom shall be from the most populous circuit. One member shall be appointed for three years, one member shall be appointed for four years, and one member shall be appointed for five years. All appointments to fill vacancies shall be for the duration of the unexpired term and subsequent appointments shall be for five-year terms. Any member so appointed shall serve only so long as the member remains an incumbent circuit judge. (5) Three incumbent district judges...
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12-17-234
Section 12-17-234 Restriction on powers of office. Anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Office of Prosecution Services may not exercise any power, supervisory or otherwise, undertake any duty or perform any function presently or hereafter assigned by law to the Governor of this state, the Attorney General, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or any district attorney of any court of record in this state. (Acts 1975, No. 1037, p. 2079, §5.)...
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12-3-17
Section 12-3-17 Decision of cases in event of absence or disqualification of judge or judges. In the absence of a judge of either of the courts of appeals or in case of the disqualification of a judge, a majority can hold court and decide cases and announce the result when concurred in by them. In the event the remaining judges are equally divided as to the decision, or the court is reduced to less than a majority, the fact must be certified to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and he shall appoint a justice or justices of that court to sit with the divided members to consider and decide said case, or, if the entire court is disqualified, the appointed justice shall consider and decide the case. (Acts 1969, No. 987, p. 1744, §13.)...
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12-2-37
Section 12-2-37 Forfeiture by judge failing to order or attend special session of court, etc. For any failure of a judge to order such special session of court or to attend any such court after having called the same or, having been notified by the Chief Justice, to attend and to perform any of the duties required of him by Sections 12-2-33, 12-2-35 and 12-2-36 without a lawful excuse, either being sick himself or having sickness in his family or being engaged in holding court elsewhere or being lawfully absent from the state, he shall forfeit $100.00 to the state, to be recovered in the circuit court of Montgomery County, on motion of the Attorney General, in the name of the state on 10 days' notice. (Acts 1915, No. 521, p. 592; Code 1923, §10302; Code 1940, T. 13, §44.)...
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