Ex Parte Community Health Systems, 1100523 (Ala. 5-6-2011)

According to the amended complaint filed by the City of Irondale in the underlying action, the owners and operators of a hospital located on Montclair Road in the City of Birmingham, known as Montclair Baptist Medical Center and subsequently known as Trinity Medical Center, decided to relocate the hospital in the City of Irondale. Later, after the City of Irondale had engaged in negotiations to purchase the relocation site and had taken steps toward infrastructure improvement on the site, 1 a decision was made not to relocate the hospital in the City of Irondale, but instead to relocate the…