Legal Opinion
Ex Parte First Family Financial Services
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided June 19, 1998No. 1961134PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On Application for Rehearing
The opinion of March 20, 1998, is withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.
This case presents a question concerning the application of Alabama's forum non conveniens statute, § 6-3-21.1, Ala. Code 1975. Because the trial court applied that statute in conformity with earlier decisions of this Court that we overrule today, we issue the writ of mandamus.
In September 1996, Margaret Ramsey1 filed a putative class action in the Marengo County Circuit Court, alleging that the defendant, First Family Financial Services, Inc. ("First Family"), had committed…
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