Alabama Legal Overview: Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope The Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope metro area in Alabama includes Mobile County and a small portion of Baldwin County just across Mobile Bay, which includes the cities of Daphne and Fairhope. Both counties have one judicial circuit court, each which has general and original jurisdiction as the main trial court. Each circuit also includes a district court and the individual cities have their municipal courts. Apart from the three primary cities across both counties, the metro area has three more cities with populations above 10,000, as listed below.
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1. The city of Mobile is the county seat of Mobile County, served by the 13th judicial circuit. Mobile county courts are located at Government Plaza on 205 Government Street. Daphne and Fairhope in Baldwin County are served by the 28th judicial circuit. The Baldwin county courts have three locations, one of which is the Fairhope Satellite Courthouse at 1100 Fairhope Avenue. The Daphne Municipal Court at 1502 Highway 98 handles local ordinance violations. More serious matters have to be filed in one of the three aforementioned circuit or district courts. 2. Summer Moody's family has filed $1 million wrongful death lawsuit in Mobile County Circuit Court against four men and the Alabama Marine Police. The teen was killed by rifle fire in April while on Gravine Island. 3. A Mobile man has come back from death row and plans to use a double jeopardy criminal defense for his retrial. Thomas Lane, 46, spent many years on death row for the murder of his wife until the appeals court threw out his conviction and ordered a retrial on the grounds that Lane's right to an attorney had been violated.
Trending Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope Legal Topics: Appeals against district court and municipal court decisions can be heard by the circuit courts. Appeals against the 13th and 28th circuit court decisions have to be filed with the Alabama civil or criminal courts of appeals, and then to the Alabama Supreme Court as the court of last resort. All attorneys in the Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope metro area must be licensed to practice law in Alabama and members of the Alabama State Bar. Many are also members of the Mobile Bar Association, which was been in existence since 1869. |