Riley v. Joint Fiscal Committee of the Alabama Legislature

On Application for Rehearing

STUART, Justice.

This Court’s opinion of April 3, 2009, is withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.

Hank Sanders and Roger Bedford, members of the Alabama Senate; John Knight, a member of the Alabama House of Representatives; and the Joint Fiscal Committee of the Alabama Legislature, of which Sanders, Bedford, and Knight are members (the individual legislators and the Joint Fiscal Committee are hereinafter referred to collectively as “the legislators”), sued Governor Bob Riley and the state comptroller, Robert L. Childree (hereinafter referred to…