Birmingham News Co. v. Muse

When this matter was before the Court originally, I concurred in the result of the opinion and wrote the following:

“It is somewhat difficult for me to understand why the Birmingham News Company is not entitled to see what Justice Houston believes it is entitled to see. I was almost persuaded to concur with his special writing, but I concur in the result, which is to remand the case to the trial court: (1) because the trial judge acknowledged that he had ‘not read all of the statements and [had] not look[ed] at all the supporting documents,’ and (2) because I believe that Auburn University…