Edgar H. BATTLE etc., et al., Plaintiffs,
James L. Taylor, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors,
v.
LIBERTY NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, S.D.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 6, 1991.
August 6, 1991.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Francis H. Hare, Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, George R. Stewart, Edward L. Hardin, Jr., Claude M. Moncus, Hardin, Stuart, Moncus & Noojin, Birmingham, Ala., C. Neal Pope, Phenix City, Ala., Richard H. Gill, Copeland Franco Screws Gill, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff.
O.S. Burke, Greensboro, Ala., J. Richard Carr (Retired), Attalla, Ala., J.L. Chestnut, Jr., Chestnut, Sanders & Sanders, Selma, Ala., U.W. Clemon, Adams, Baker & Clemon, Birmingham, Ala., John B. Crawley, Troy, Ala., Jack Drake, Drake & Knowles, University, Ala., David M. Enslen, Nolen & Enslen, Fayette, Ala., J. Pelham Ferrell, Ferrell & Bennett, Phenix City, Ala., Fred D. Gray, Gray, Seay & Langford, Tuskegee, Ala., Thomas K. Jefferson, Huntsville, Ala., Alto V. Lee, III, Lee & McInish, Dothan, Ala., Duncan Manly, Rives, Peterson, Pettus, Conway, Elliott & Small, Birmingham, Ala., Edmon McKinley, Thomasville, Ala., John W. Parker, Tonsmeire, McFadden & Rile, Mobile, Ala., Don B. Long, Jr., William D. Jones, III, Johnston Barton Proctor Swedlaw & Naff, Birmingham, Ala., John A. Russell, III, Hubbard & Waldrop, J.J. Spiro, Tuscaloosa, Ala., George P. Walthall, Jr., Walthall & Cleveland, Prattville, Ala., Augusta E. Wilson, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff-intervenors.
Ralph B. Tate, Spain, Gillon, Riley, Tate & Etheredge, John S.P. Samford, Ira L. Burleson, Andrew Campbell, Leitman Siegal & Payne Campbell, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants.
Edward Still, Thomas B. Leonard, III, Birmingham, Ala., for objectors-intervenors.
Thomas A. Ansley, Jonathan H. Waller, Charles A. McCallum, III, Haskell Slaughter & Young, Birmingham, Ala., for Rideout's-Brown-Service.
Polly White, pro. se. Jack Lee d/b/a Jack Lee Funeral Home, Jack Lee & Sons Funeral Home, Inc., pro se.
United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, S.D.
ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief District Judge:*
This lawsuit, filed in 1970 on behalf of a class of Alabama funeral homes, has clung to life with a tenacity which, if it could be matched by humans, would undoubtedly have obviated the need for the "burial insurance" that has been the subject of contention in the case for over 20 years. Despite a final consent decree entered in 1977, the cause is now again before the court on a...
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