State v. Brown

Decision Date10 July 1987
PartiesSTATE of Alabama, et al. v. James Clyde BROWN, et al. CITY OF MONTGOMERY, et al. v. James Clyde BROWN, et al. 85-396, 85-533.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Charles Price, Judge.

Charles A. Graddick and Don Siegelman, Attys. Gen., and Jack M. Curtis, Leura J. Garrett, and George Azar, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants.

J. Doyle Fuller and George L. Beck, Jr., Montgomery, for appellees.

Donald V. Watkins and Karen Neal Knight, of Watkins, Carter & Knight, Birmingham, and James Baker, City Atty., City of Birmingham, for amicus curiae, the City of Birmingham.

Vernon L. Wells II, and Larry B. Childs of Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O'Neal, Birmingham, for intervenor City of Gulf Shores.

SHORES, Justice.

Reversed and remanded on the authority of City of Dothan v. Holloway, 501 So.2d 1136 (Ala.1986).

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

TORBERT, C.J., and MADDOX, HOUSTON and STEAGALL, JJ., concur.

JONES, ALMON, BEATTY and ADAMS, JJ., dissent.

BEATTY, Justice (dissenting):

I dissent and adhere to the views I expressed in City of Dothan v. Holloway, 501 So.2d 1136 (Ala.1986).

JONES, ALMON and ADAMS, JJ., concur.

HOUSTON and STEAGALL, Justices (responding to motions to recuse).

See our respective opinions in City of Dothan v. Holloway, 501 So.2d 1136 (Ala.1986), for an explanation of our denial of the appellees' motions to recuse.

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  • Alabama Dem v. Town of Lowndesboro
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Civil Appeals
    • 8 April 2005
    ...143 So. at 582. 7. The cases that we discuss in this opinion as "Brown I" and "Brown II" actually followed the decision in State v. Brown, 514 So.2d 836 (Ala.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 961, 108 S.Ct. 1225, 99 L.Ed.2d 425 (1988), a case not pertinent to our 8. While not necessary to our h......
  • Brown v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Supreme Court
    • 11 May 1990
    ...on the authority of Holloway, reversed the judgment of the circuit court as to Subclass A 5 and remanded the cause in State v. Brown ("Brown I "), 514 So.2d 836 (Ala.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 961, 108 S.Ct. 1225, 99 L.Ed.2d 425 The defendants filed a motion on May 12, 1988, to dismiss p......
  • State v. Brown
    • United States
    • Alabama Supreme Court
    • 8 March 1991
    ...Co. v. Alabama Dairy Comm'n, 383 So.2d 511 (Ala.1978). Based on the foregoing reasons, I dissent. STEAGALL, J., concurs. 1 State v. Brown, 514 So.2d 836 (Ala.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 961, 108 S.Ct. 1225, 99 L.Ed.2d 425 (1988).2 Brown v. State, 565 So.2d 585 (Ala.1990).3 The State of Al......

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