Ex Parte Sierra Club

The Alabama chapter of the Sierra Club ("Sierra"), a national environmental organization, petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus ordering the Montgomery Circuit Court to reinstate a consent judgment. The consent judgment, which had been signed by Sierra representatives and the attorney general, concerned the legality of the appointments of R.D. Hicks, Charlotte Carter, and John Howard Lester to the Alabama Environmental Management Commission ("the Commission"). The legality of those appointments had been brought into question by a declaratory judgment and permanent injunction action…