Legal Opinion
Scrushy v. HealthSouth Corp.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided April 12, 2006No. 1050574Published
1Opinion of the Court
LYONS, Justice.
Richard M. Scrushy has filed a petition for a writ of prohibition or, in the alternative, for a writ of mandamus challenging the circuit court’s order requiring him to dismiss a pending arbitration proceeding that he had initiated. We grant the petition and issue the writ of mandamus.
I. Factual Background and Procedural History
Currently pending in the Jefferson Circuit Court is Richard M. Scrushy v. HealthSouth Corporation, No. CV-05-7364. Scrushy, the petitioner here, filed this breach-of-contract action on December 9, 2005, alleging that HealthSouth improperly terminated his…
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