Comer v. City of Mobile

Appellants, Donald Comer, III, George E. Bagley, Alto V. Lee, III, Leslie S. Wright and Melvin G. Cooper, appeal a final order and decree by Circuit Judge Perry O. Hooper which held Act No. 130 of the 1975 session of the Alabama Legislature unconstitutional in its entirety as well as holding that the incumbent Ethics Commissioners (appellants) are holding office illegally, having not been appointed under Act No. 130. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

THE HISTORY

Act No. 1056 of the 1973 session of the Alabama Legislature, the Alabama Ethics Law, was enacted by the Legislature on September…