Ex Parte Shelby County

Shelby County, a political subdivision of the State of Alabama, petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable Robert R. Armstrong, Jr., judge of the Circuit Court of Shelby County, to set aside his order transferring the underlying lawsuit to Jefferson Circuit Court and to restore the case to the docket of the Shelby Circuit Court. The writ is granted.

On August 4, 1986, Shelby County and several other plaintiffs filed suit in Shelby County Circuit Court, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the City of Birmingham, the mayor of Birmingham, members of the city…