http://gaveltogavel.us/site/2012/08/21/election-2012-alabama-court-cost-constitutional-amendments/ A review of state legislation affecting the courts. Sat, 18 May 2013 19:41:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://gaveltogavel.us/site/2012/08/21/election-2012-alabama-court-cost-constitutional-amendments/comment-page-1/#comment-31560 Election 2012: The close calls and why non-votes killed Hawaii’s Amendment 2 & Wyoming’s Amendment C » Gavel to Gavel Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:10:14 +0000 http://gaveltogavel.us/site/?p=4954#comment-31560 [...] I’ve mentioned before the constitutional quirk in Alabama whereby changes or increases in court filing fees required an amendment in the state’s constitution in many instances, albeit amendments voted on by only the county affected. The 3 items on the ballot in November 2012, all of which would have increased courts fees for various court or law library needs, all failed. In Marion County it was no contest: the proposal failed 46-54. The other two narrowly lost; the Covington County Local Amendment failed 49.58 to 50.42%, a margin of 88 votes. Similarly Etowah County Local Amendment 2 only failed 49.71 to 50.29%, a margin of 51 votes. While it is not clear the legislature will take these matters up again, the narrow losses are interesting. [...]

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