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WOODWARD v. ROBERSON

1991066.

789 So.2d 853 (2001)

Jim WOODWARD, individually and in the capacity of sheriff of Jefferson County v. Jim ROBERSON et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert L. Jordan and Michael L. Jackson of Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham; and Algert S. Agricola, Jr., of Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Montgomery, for appellant.

Charlie D. Waldrep, Victoria J. Franklin-Sisson, and V. Michelle Obradovic of Gorham & Waldrep, P.C., Birmingham, for appellee Personnel Board of Jefferson County.

Jon B. Terry of Bains & Terry, Bessemer, for appellee Allan Farley.

LYONS, Justice.

This lawsuit arose in the aftermath of the dispute over the 1998 election of the sheriff in Jefferson County. On the Monday after this Court issued its opinion in Eubanks v. Hale, 752 So.2d 1113 (Ala. 1999), and after Jim Woodward had been sworn in as sheriff, Woodward fired Allen Farley and demoted Jim Roberson, both of them Jefferson County deputy sheriffs. Woodward gave as his reason that Farley had pursued...

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