Gulf State Park Authority v. Gulf Beach Hotel, Inc.

WOODALL, Justice.

In separately filed declaratory-judgment actions, Gulf Beach Hotel, Inc., and Charley Grimsley (hereinafter referred to collectively as “the hotel”) attacked the legality of an agreement, a memorandum of understanding, between the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (“the Department”) and Auburn University (“the University”) for the long-term lease of a portion of Gulf State Park (“the park”), more specifically, the site of the former Gulf State Park Lodge (“the lodge”), which was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. The trial court consolidated *435the…