Lucy v. Mobile County Commission

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

This case is almost factually identical with Sorrell v. Johnson, 690 So.2d 1210 (Ala.Civ. App.1996). Doris Lucy and various other Mobile County juvenile probation officers (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Lucy”) filed a petition for a writ of a mandamus and a complaint for a declaratory judgment. Lucy requested the trial court to declare that the Mobile County Commission, the Mobile County Personnel Board, and the Mobile County Commissioners were required by § 44-1-26, Ala.Code 1975, as amended, to increase the salaries of juvenile probation…