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Carolynn Elizabeth Wood v. David Lynn Haynes, et al.
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Alabama, No. SC-2025-0205 · judgment May 22, 2026
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estimated cert probability
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Question presented
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court of last resort to affirm dismissal with prejudice on a dispositive justiciability ground that the respondents did not raise and the trial court did not state, without notice or a meaningful opportunity to address that ground before judgment, where the petitioner sought a declaration of disputed legal rights and challenged the newly announced ground at the first available opportunity.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Carolynn E. Woods
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
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Proceedings
- Sep 15 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 19, 2026)