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EX PARTE SAWYER

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892 So.2d 919 (2004)

Ex parte Kathy SAWYER and James R. Finch. (In re Laura Percer, as administratrix of the estate of Cynthia Ruth Shirley, deceased v. Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 7, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Clements, Robert E. Battle, and Geoffrey S. Bald of Burr & Forman, LLP, Birmingham; and David Jackson, Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation, for petitioners.

Kenneth J. Mendelsohn, Thomas E. James, and Ellenann C. Benefield of Jemison, Mendelsohn & James, P.C., Montgomery, for respondent.

SEE, Justice.

Laura Percer, as administratrix of the estate of Cynthia Ruth Shirley, brought a wrongful-death action against the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation ("DMHMR"); Kathy Sawyer, commissioner of DMHMR; James Finch, director of the Lurleen B. Wallace Developmental Center ("the Wallace Center"); and several fictitiously named defendants. Although Percer is not a resident of Montgomery County and none of the actions complained of in...

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