ADAMS v. LEATHERBURY

79-227.

388 So.2d 510 (1980)

W. P. ADAMS v. E. Robert LEATHERBURY, as Chairman of the State Pilotage Commission; Joe Ollinger, Jr., and J. E. Rehm, as members of the State Pilotage Commission.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 12, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mylan R. Engel and Edgar P. Walsh of Engel & Smith, Mobile, for appellant.

Kirk C. Shaw of Armbrecht, Jackson, Demouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, for appellees.


MADDOX, Justice.

This appeal involves a claim of age discrimination by a Mobile bar pilot, who was requested by the State Pilotage Commission to surrender his bar pilot's license on his sixty-eighth birthday, as required by Code 1975, § 33-4-53.

The bar pilot filed this action against the members of the State Pilotage Commission, and asked the Court to declare the state's compulsory retirement of bar pilots law unconstitutional, because it conflicted...

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