Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose asked the Court of the Judiciary to pause proceedings while investigators kept working. The chief judge scrawled ‘Denied’ across the motion and signed it.
Category: Washington County
News from Washington County, Alabama and its communities.
Chatom
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Nine Judges Were Pressed Into Service to Cover a Suspended Judge’s Docket
With Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose suspended and facing a 60-charge ethics complaint, judges from Washington, Choctaw, Monroe and Marengo counties were assigned to keep his courtrooms running.
Clarke County
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Clarke County Judge Asks Mobile Court to Void $1.2 Million Judgment Against Him
Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose asked a Mobile court to vacate an order holding him personally liable for $1.2 million in an estate dispute, arguing the order would force him to act illegally.
Clarke County
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Mobile Judge Enters $1.2 Million Judgment Against a Sitting Clarke County Judge
Mobile County Circuit Judge John Lockett entered a $1.19 million judgment against Circuit Judge Stuart Dubose of Clarke County in a legal malpractice case over a $2.5 million estate Dubose handled as a lawyer.
Chatom
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Judge-Elect’s Law License in Jeopardy After Supreme Court Rejects Discipline as Too Lenient
Circuit Judge-elect Stuart DuBose faced renewed bar discipline in late 2006 after the Alabama Supreme Court rejected a suspension timed to begin the day after the election as too lenient.
Baldwin County
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Shelby Pressed the Case Against the Estate Tax, Calling It a Threat to Family Farms and Small Business
In June 2006, Sen. Richard Shelby argued that the federal estate tax, scheduled to return in 2011, threatened family farms and small businesses, and pressed for permanent repeal after a Senate defeat.