EX PARTE JEFFERSON COUNTY

1982281.

767 So.2d 343 (2000)

Ex parte JEFFERSON COUNTY et al. (In re Jason Richards et al. v. Jefferson County et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 17, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Slaughter and John W. Scott of Haskell, Slaughter & Young, L.L.C., Birmingham; and Jeffrey M. Sewell, Jefferson County Attorney, for petitioners.

William J. Baxley and Joel E. Dillard of Baxley, Dillard & Dauphin, Birmingham, for respondents.


PER CURIAM.

Jefferson County, the defendant in a class action pending in the Jefferson Circuit Court, petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to dismiss that action on the ground of lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. We deny the writ.

The class action was filed by certain Jefferson County taxpayers, on behalf of all Jefferson County taxpayers; the plaintiffs claimed, among other things, that an "occupational tax," which was authorized...

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