HealthSouth of Alabama, LLC v. Shelby Ridge Acquisition Corp.

For the benefit of the readers of the decisions of this court and the supreme court and for the benefit of the trial court that devoted an enormous amount of judicial resources to the litigation that now comes to a curious end, I write specially to make the following observations.

In the two most recent cases where this court issued a decision that was inconsistent with the position taken by the Alabama State Health Planning and Development Agency (“SHPDA”) in the appeal, the parties reached a resolution of some type after this court issued the decisions. Settlements are good for all and…