Joint Fiscal Committee of the Alabama Legislature v. Riley

Bob Riley, Governor of the State of Alabama, and Robert L. Childree, comptroller of the State of Alabama (hereinafter referred to collectively as “the Riley defendants”), have petitioned this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to dismiss the complaint in the underlying case against them for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Pursuant to this Court’s order of September 23, 2008, the plaintiffs in the underlying case, Hank Sanders and Roger Bedford, members of the Alabama Senate; John Knight, a member of the *803Alabama House of Representatives; and the Joint Fiscal Committee…