Fox v. Hunt

The plaintiffs — John Fox, Pat Booher, Vickie Allen, and Jimmy Farris — sued Guy Hunt, Robin Swift, Robert Childree, Polly Conradi, Debra Hackett, and Jackie Calhoun, in their respective capacities as Governor, director of finance, state comptroller, and circuit court clerks.1 The complaint sought class certification for the plaintiffs as representatives of that class of plaintiffs in prior civil lawsuits that had paid the statutory $50 civil jury trial fee, pursuant to §§12-19-71(4) and -72(4), Ala. Code 1975. The complaint alleged that all statutory fees required to be paid for a jury trial…