ATLANTA, GA - Following the Judicial Inquiry Commission's (JIC) dismissal of the complaint against Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker, he has asked the federal courts to rule on the merits of his constitutional challenge to the speech restrictive Judicial Canon 3(A)(6) and the automatic removal provision. The lower court abstained from deciding the legal merits because the complaint was pending in the JIC. Parker appealed his challenge to the Federal Court of Appeals. Now that the JIC complaint has been dismissed, he has asked the Federal Court of Appeals to send the case back to the lower federal court to rule on the merits of his constitutional challenge.
