Alabama Education Ass'n v. Black

YATES, Presiding Judge.

These parties have previously.been before this court. See Alabama Educ. Ass’n v. Black, 752 So.2d 514 (Ala.Civ.App.1999) (“Black I”) for a detailed procedural and factual history of this case.

Suffice it to say that Carmen Black was a nontenured teacher employed by the Birmingham Board of Education (“Board”). Black was also a member of the AEA, an organization consisting of approximately 75,000 teachers and education support personnel that lobbies on behalf of its members. One function of the AEA is to hire attorneys to represent its members in employer-employee…