[snip]Plaintiff Albert Hendershot Jr. declined comment after a brief hearing, but he previously said he would appeal to the Republican-controlled Alabama Supreme Court.
[snip]An attorney for Kennedy, Barry Ragsdale, argued that Hendershot’s complaint was a “generalized grievance” based on Internet rumors, and that Alabama courts don’t have the power to intervene in such issues.
[snip]“This court should not have to be dedicating its resources to hearing a complaint that is political in nature,” Ragsdale said. Even if the court had jurisdiction, he said, the Hawaiian birth certificate that was presented publicly last year proves Obama is a citizen and settles the eligibility issue under Alabama law.