Jasper City Council v. Woods

The defendants, the Jasper city council and council members V.L. Posey, John Rollins, and Lee Swann, appeal from an order of the Walker Circuit Court ruling that Mayor Penn Woods's veto of certain resolutions adopted by a majority of the city council was valid to nullify those resolutions. We reverse and remand.

I

On February 10, 1994, the city council adopted certain resolutions prohibiting the City of Jasper Sanitation Department from disposing of solid waste,1 other than inert materials, at the Jasper city landfill through the end of the fiscal year, i.e., September 30, 1994. On February 12,…