Legal Opinion
Browning-Ferris Industries of Alabama, Inc. v. Pegues
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided August 4, 1987No. Civ. A. 85-H-228-NPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
HOBBS, Chief Judge.
Browning-Ferris Industries of Alabama (BFI), as well as Joe Pilcher, Jr. and J. W. Casey, as Executors of the Estate of Harrell Hammonds, deceased, have brought this action seeking a declaration by this Court that an Act of the Alabama Legislature known as the Minus Act (Ala.Code § 22-30-5.1 (1984)) is unconstitutional violating the Fourteenth Amendment and the Commerce Clause (U.S. Const. Art. I, § 8) of the Constitution of the United States. When this case was initially presented to this Court, this Court held that the constitutionality of the Minus Act…
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