In Ex parte State ex rel. Alabama Policy Institute, 200 So. 3d 495 (Ala. 2015), the Supreme Court of Alabama intervened in the state’s handling of same-sex marriage following federal district court rulings striking down Alabama’s marriage ban.

In the case LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C., 403 So. 3d 747 (Ala. 2024), the Supreme Court of Alabama expanded the reach of the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act to include frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF).

In Beasley v. Alabama State University, 966 F. Supp. 1117 (M.D. Ala. 1997), the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama addressed systemic inequities in collegiate athletics under Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment.

In Henderson v. Thomas, 913 F. Supp. 2d 1267 (M.D. Ala. 2012), the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama struck down the Alabama Department of Corrections’ longstanding policy of segregating prisoners living with HIV.

In Shaw v. Mobile County Public School System, 84 F. Supp. 3d 1303 (S.D. Ala. 2015), the Southern District of Alabama evaluated a gender discrimination claim under Title VII.

Otey v. Director of Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, (N.D. Ala. 2017) is a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama case where a federal constitutional challenge to the state’s Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act (SORCNA) was considered.

Title 30 of the Alabama Code addresses marital and family relations and outlines the state’s statutory framework for preventing and responding to domestic violence.

The Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act establishes state controls over gender-identity-related medical and educational interventions for minors. Section 2 sets the legislative findings, declaring that a child’s biological sex is immutable and that medical treatments intended to affirm a different gender present experimental risks. 

Alabama Code § 16-40A-5 governs classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity within the Alabama public schools.

Alabama Code § 16-40A-2, outlines the required elements of sex education in the Alabama's public schools. The statute mandates that instruction emphasize abstinence as the only fully effective means of preventing unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, and that abstinence outside marriage is the expected social norm for unmarried students.