Wallace State C. Col. v. Al. Com'n on Higher Educ.

This appeal is by Wallace State Community College at Hanceville (Wallace State) and Linda Diane Bailey and ten other students at Wallace State (Bailey appellants) from a final judgment and permanent injunction entered by the trial court in favor of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education and Dr. Joseph T. Sutton, executive director of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (collectively, the Commission).

In December 1986, the Commission obtained an injunction from the Montgomery County Circuit Court prohibiting Wallace State from establishing a physical therapy assistant program. In…