Ex Parte City of Dothan Personnel Bd.

On August 21, 2001, the City of Dothan Personnel Board ("the Board") filed a petition for a writ of mandamus ordering Judge Denny L. Holloway ("the trial judge") to recuse himself from presiding over Stanley E. DeVane's appeal of the Board's decision to affirm the termination of DeVane's employment by the Dothan Police Department. The Board asserts that the trial judge is disqualified from sitting in DeVane's appeal because, at the time of his appeal, one of the attorneys representing DeVane, Jere Segrest, was also representing the trial judge personally in a divorce proceeding. DeVane…