Alabama Department of Public Safety v. Ogles

14 So.3d 121 (2009)

ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY and Mike Coppage, as director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety

v.

Greg OGLES.

1061539.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 16, 2009.

Jack W. Curtis and J. Haran Lowe, Jr., Department of Public Safety, Legal Unit, for appellants.

Brian M. Clark of Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis, LLC, Birmingham; and Gary B. Holder of The Holder Law Firm, Homewood, for appellee.

BOLIN, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the court in which the underlying action was filed, the Jefferson Circuit Court, had subject-matter jurisdiction over the…