Legal Opinion
Mitchell v. Mobile County
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided May 8, 1975No. SC 832PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*133EMBRY, Justice.
This is an appeal from a final judgment adverse to plaintiffs’ claim that Act No. 1177 of the 1973 Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature is unconstitutional.1 Plaintiffs, appellants here, are members of the Mobile County Personnel Board and the Director of that Board. Defendants, appellees here, are: Mobile County; Ray D. Bridges, Sheriff of Mobile County (his successor in office, Tom Purvis, has been properly substituted on appeal); all other counties and sheriffs thereof who come under the influence of Act No. 1177.
The trial court, after severing the first two sentences…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Burns v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1944
- Wilkins v. WoolfSupreme Court of Alabama · 1968
- Alabama Industrial Bank v. State Ex Rel. C. E. AvingerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1970
- Hamilton v. Autauga CountySupreme Court of Alabama · 1972
- May v. HeadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1923
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Beck v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1981
- Tuscaloosa County Com'n v. Deputy SheriffsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1991
- L.B.S. v. L.M.S.Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 2002
- Jefferson County v. BraswellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1981
- Comer v. City of MobileSupreme Court of Alabama · 1976
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