Schoenvogel v. Venator Group Retail, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that Alabama’s dead man statute “has been superseded by Rule 601, Ala. R. Evid.”
• tracing the movement away from the common-law rule that rendered parties incompetent to testify in their own cases
• discussing supreme court's authority to alter procedural statutory laws, but not substantive statutory laws, by adopting an inconsistent court rule
• constitutional power to make rules of practice and procedure includes rules of evidence
• “Against this backdrop of lengthy and painstaking vetting of the rule by this Court, it cannot be gainsaid that this Court intended for the adoption of Rule 601 to abrogate the Dead Man’s Statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).