EX PARTE JAMES

1950030, 1950031, 1950240, 1950241, 1950408, 1950409 and 1950917.

713 So.2d 869 (1997)

Ex parte Governor Fob JAMES, et al. (In re ALABAMA COALITION FOR EQUITY, INC., an Alabama nonprofit corporation, et al. v. Fob JAMES, Jr., in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Alabama and as president of the State Board of Education, et al.). Ex parte Governor Fob JAMES, et al. (In re Mary HARPER, suing as next friend of Deion Harper; and Kerry Phillips, a minor, et al. v. Fob JAMES, Jr., in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Alabama and as president of the State Board of Education, et al.). Fob JAMES, Jr., in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Alabama and as president of the State Board of Education, et al. v. ALABAMA COALITION FOR EQUITY, INC., et al. Fob JAMES, Jr., in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Alabama and as president of the State Board of Education, et al. v. Mary HARPER, et al. Joyce PINTO, et al. v. ALABAMA COALITION FOR EQUITY, et al. Joyce PINTO, et al. v. ALABAMA COALITION FOR EQUITY, et al. Ex parte Fob JAMES, Governor of Alabama, et al. (In re ALABAMA COALITION FOR EQUITY, INC., an Alabama nonprofit corporation, et al. v. Fob JAMES, in his official capacity as Governor of Alabama, et al.).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Judgment Modified on Denial of Rehearing December 3, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeff Sessions and Bill Pryor, attys. gen., and Brock B. Gordon, Mobile, for Attorney General Jeff Sessions; and M. Roland Nachman, Jr., and William P. Gray, Jr., Montgomery, for Governor Fob James and the state finance director.

Samuel Adams, Montgomery; and Kendrick E. Webb and Bart Harmon of Webb & Eley, P.C., Montgomery; and Thomas F. Parker IV, Montgomery, for the Pinto parties.

C. C. Torbert, Jr., of Maynard, Cooper, Frierson & Gale, P.C. [firm name later stated as Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C.], Montgomery; Michael D. Waters and Susan Russ Walker of Miller, Hamilton, Snider & Odom, Montgomery; and James G. Speake of Speake & Speake, Moulton, for Alabama Coalition for Equity, Inc.

Victoria Farr and Reuben Cook, Tuscaloosa, for Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program and John Doe plaintiffs.

Robert D. Segall of Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, P.A., Montgomery; Chris Hansen, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City; and Martha I. Morgan, Tuscaloosa, for Harper plaintiffs.


Judgment Modified on Denial of Rehearing December 3, 1997. (See Opinion and Special Writings at 713 So.2d 935.)

COOK, Justice.

These cases offer us another opportunity to review trial court proceedings in what has come to be known as the "Public School Equity Funding Case." See Pinto v. Alabama Coalition for Equity, 662 So.2d 894 (Ala.1995); and Opinion of the Justices No. 333, 624 So.2d 107...

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