Ex parte Davis

“What has been an orderly process, I suspect, will soon resemble a three-ring circus.” Tyson v. Macon Cnty. Greyhound Park, Inc., 43 So.3d 587, 595 (Ala. 2010) (Woodall, J., dissenting). Admittedly this quotation is taken out of context. From the perspective of a probate judge in Alabama, however, the events that have unfolded subsequent to the issuance of the memorandum opinion and order by United States District Judge Callie S. Granade, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, Southern Division, in Civil Action No. 14-0208-CG-N surely brings to mind this…