STATE EX REL. ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE

1140460.

200 So.3d 495 (2015)

Ex parte STATE of Alabama ex rel. ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE, Alabama Citizens Action Program, and John E. Enslen, in his official capacity as Judge of Probate for Elmore County. (In re Alan L. King, in his official capacity as Judge of Probate for Jefferson County, et al.).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Order Issued March 10, 2015.

Order Issued March 4, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Eric Johnston , Birmingham; Samuel J. McLure of The Adoption Law Firm, Montgomery; and Mathew D. Staver , Horatio G. Mihet , and Roger K. Gannam of Liberty Counsel, Orlando, FL, for petitioner State ex rel. Alabama Policy Institute and Alabama Citizens Action Program.

John E. Enslen , Probate Judge of Elmore County, as petitioner.

Lee L. Hale , Mobile; and J. Michael Druhan, Jr. , and Harry V. Satterwhite , Mobile, for respondent Judge Don Davis, Probate Judge of Mobile County.

Gregory H. Hawley , Christopher J. Nicholson , and G. Douglas Jones of Jones & Hawley, PC, Birmingham; and Jeffrey Sewell and French McMillan of Sewell, Sewell, McMillan, LLC, Jasper, for respondent Alan L. King, Probate Judge of Jefferson County.

George W. Royer, Jr. , and Brad A. Chynoweth of Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne, P.C., Huntsville, for respondent Tommy Ragland, Probate Judge of Madison County.

Robert D. Segall of Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, P.A., Montgomery; Thomas T. Gallon and Constance C. Walker of Haskell Slaughter & Gallon, LLC, Montgomery; Samuel H. Heldman of The Gardner Firm, PC, Washington, D.C.; Tyrone C. Means , H. Lewis Gillis , and Kristen Gillis of Means Gillis Law, LLC, Montgomery; and John Mark Englehart , Montgomery, for respondent Steven L. Reed, Probate Judge of Montgomery County.

Kendrick E. Webb , Jamie Helen Kidd , and Fred L. Clements, Jr. , of Webb & Eley, P.C., Montgomery, for respondent Robert M. Martin, Probate Judge of Chilton County.

L. Dean Johnson , Huntsville, for amici curiae Eagle Forum of Alabama Education Foundation and Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, in support of the petitioner State ex rel. Alabama Policy Institute and Alabama Citizens Action Program.

J. Richard Cohen and David Dinielli , Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery; Ayesha Khan , Americans United for Separation of Church and state, Washington, D.C.; Shannon P. Minter and Christopher F. Stoll , National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA; and Randall C. Marshall , ACLU of Alabama Foundation, Montgomery, for amicus curiae Equality Alabama, in support of the respondents.

J. Stanton Glasscox of Glasscox Law Firm, LLC, Birmingham, for amicus curiae J. Stanton Glasscox, in support of the respondents.


The State of Alabama, on relation of the Alabama Policy Institute ("API"), the Alabama Citizens Action Program ("ACAP"), and John E. Enslen, in his official capacity as Judge of Probate for Elmore County, seeks emergency and other relief from this Court relating to the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Named as respondents...

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