Blue Ridge Sand & Gravel, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Transportation

MADDOX, Justice.

The question presented by this petition for the writ of mandamus is whether the defendants in a lawsuit pending in the Montgomery Circuit Court — the Alabama Department of Transportation (“ALDOT”) and several of its officers and employees— are immune from liability under the provisions of Art. I, § 14, of the Constitution of' Alabama 1901.

In the petition, ALDOT and its officers and employees ask us to direct the trial court to grant their collective motions for summary judgment based on their claims of sovereign immunity. After considering the briefs of the parties, we grant…