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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
(petition-stage, structural)

Well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weights this down for a petition under 3,000 words.

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

  1. Sep 15 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 19, 2026)