JAMES v. ALABAMA COALITION FOR EQUITY, INC.

1960327, 1960328, 1960470 to 1960473, 1960489 and 1960490.

713 So.2d 937 (1997)

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., an Alabama nonprofit corporation, 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, suing as next friend of Deion Harper and Perry Phillips, minors, et al. ALABAMA COALITION FOR EQUITY, INC. v. Fob JAMES, Jr., et al. ALABAMA COALITION FOR EQUITY, INC. v. Fob JAMES, Jr., et al. Deion HARPER, et al. v. Fob JAMES, Jr., et al. Deion HARPER, et al. v. Fob JAMES, Jr., et al. STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION and State Board of Education v. ALABAMA COALITION FOR EQUITY, INC., et al. STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION and State Board of Education v. ALABAMA COALITION FOR EQUITY, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 12, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Pryor, atty. gen., and Brock B. Gordon, Mobile, for appellant Attorney General Bill Pryor.

M. Roland Nachman, Jr., Montgomery; and William P. Gray, Jr., legal advisor to the Governor for appellants Governor James and Finance Director Sage Lyons.

Michael R. White, general counsel, Department of Education; and Denise B. Azar and Ashley H. Hamlett, Office of General Counsel, Department of Education, for appellants State Superintendent of Education and State Board of Education.

Robert D. Segall of Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, Montgomery; and Christopher A. Hansen, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City, for Harper cross-appellants/appellees.

Reuben W. Cook, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, Tuscaloosa, for Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program and John Doe.

C.C. Torbert, Jr., of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, Montgomery; James Allen Main and L. Landis Sexton of Beasley, Wilson, Allen, Main & Crow, P.C., Montgomery; Michael D. Waters of Miller, Hamilton, Snider & Odom, Montgomery; and James G. Speake of Speake & Speake, Moulton, for appellees/cross appellants Alabama Coalition for Equity, Inc., et al.


COOK, Justice.

These cases arise out of the ongoing litigation known as the "Public School Equity Funding Case." See Ex parte James, 713 So.2d 869 (Ala.1997); Pinto v. Alabama Coalition for Equity, 662 So.2d 894 (Ala.1995); Opinion of the Justices No. 338, 624 So.2d 107 (Ala.1993). They are appeals and cross appeals from a judgment of the...

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