Terms Used In Alabama Code 37-3-29

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • circuit: means judicial circuit. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

From any final action or order of the commission in the exercise of the jurisdiction, power or authority, conferred upon the commission by this chapter, an appeal shall lie to the circuit court of the county of the carrier’s residence or in which he has his principal place of business or to the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama, and thence to the Supreme Court of Alabama. Appeals to a circuit court must be taken within 30 days after the date of such final action or order, and such appeals and the supersedeas and stay of action or order appealed from in other respects shall be governed by the provisions of the law respecting appeals in other cases from the final orders and actions of the commission. Appeals to the supreme court from judgments of the circuit court shall be governed by the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure.