Dickson Campers, Inc. v. City of Mobile

MURDOCK, Justice.

Dickson Campers, Inc. (“Dickson Campers”), filed a class-action complaint on January 17, 2003, against the City of Mobile (“the City”), alleging that it was representative of a class of approximately 200 businesses operating in the City’s police jurisdiction whose members, for the preceding two years, had paid both the City’s annual business-license tax and the City’s monthly gross-receipts privilege or license tax. Dickson Campers sought: (1) a judgment declaring void the license taxes levied on businesses in the City’s police jurisdiction pursuant to § 11-51-91, Ala.Code…