Alabama Coalition for Equity, Inc. v. James

I. Introduction

The issues in this case are perhaps the most important that this Court has ever reviewed or will ever review. Yet this Court has decided not to review some of those issues and to defer deciding others. I appreciate this Court’s decision to allow the Legislature time to resolve this problem before the courts get too involved in crafting a remedy; that duty belongs solely to the Legislature and the Governor. However, enormous damage has been inflicted upon the political, legal, social, and economic life of this state by Judge Reese’s liability order. This Court refuses to review…