Legal Opinion
Heck v. Hall
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided June 29, 1939No. 3 Div. 303PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KNIGHT, Justice.
I. C. Heck,'the Comptroller of the State of Alabama, impressed that the Act of the Legislature, Regular Session 1939, approved March 2nd, 1939, and known as the “Merit System Act” was unconstitutional, and therefore void, brought this proceeding in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County against the respondents, Grover C. Hall, Thomas E. Kilby and John H. Peach, as Members of the State Personnel Board of the State of Alabama, and I. J. Browder, as State Director of Personnel of the State of Alabama, for declaratory judgment as to the validity of said Act.
It was insisted in the…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- United States v. HartwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1868
- Ballentyne v. WickershamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1883
- BUTLER v. Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1851
- Ex parte PollardSupreme Court of Alabama · 1866
- Lindsay v. United States Savings & Loan Ass'nSupreme Court of Alabama · 1897
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3Cited by36 opinions
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- Simpson v. Van RyzinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1972
- Comer v. City of MobileSupreme Court of Alabama · 1976
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