Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Aldeer General Forum Senate Bill 175 - Game Wardens to be shifted out of DCNR to Public Safety

... I have heard no arguments for how this will make things better for hunters, the wildlife resources, Outdoor Alabama in general

...Seems to me, Jawbone is referring to case law. Mr 49er has posted state law as a rebuttal. Which is how the argument probably went during the case that established open field doctrine.

... The circuit courts of Alabama, as courts of general jurisdiction, have the same power and duty to provide relief for violations of federal law as do the federal courts. Indeed, when the rights provided by a state constitution mirror rights of the United States Constitution, the state court system may be a more appropriate forum for protecting those rights, because, in many instances, the individual rights provisions under the state constitution are as broad as, if not broader than, those in the federal Bill of Rights.

"While the Federal Constitution, as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court, establishes minimum standards, the states have the power and are free to provide greater safeguards and to extend this protection through their own organic law—the State Constitutions. Indeed, the 9th and 10th Amendments to the United States Constitution envisage this fundamental truth."

Gilbreath v. Wallace, 292 Ala. 267, 271, 292 So.2d 651, 654-55 (1974) (footnote omitted).

... "State courts cannot rest when they have afforded their citizens the full protections of the federal Constitution. State constitutions, too, are a font of individual liberties, their protections often extending beyond those required by the Supreme Court's interpretation of federal law . . . Federal law . . . must not be allowed to inhibit the independent protective force of state law—for without it, the full realization of our liberties cannot be guaranteed."