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BIRMINGHAM-JEFFERSON CIVIC CTR. AUTH. v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM

1031522.

912 So.2d 204 (2005)

BIRMINGHAM-JEFFERSON CIVIC CENTER AUTHORITY et al. v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM; Taxpayers and Citizens of the City of Birmingham; and Jefferson County.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 3, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Preston Bolt, Jr., and E. Luckett Robinson II of Hand Arendall, L.L.C., Mobile; E. Shane Black of Hand Arendall, L.L.C., Birmingham; and Thomas L. Stewart of Emond, Vines, Gorham & Waldrep, Birmingham, for appellant Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority.

Troy King, atty. gen., and Billington M. Garrett and Alice M. Maples, asst. attys. gen., for intervenor/appellant State of Alabama.

Oakley Melton, Jr., and J. Flynn Mozingo of Melton, Espy & Williams, P.C., Montgomery, for intervenors/appellants Alabama House of Representatives, Alabama Senate, and Alabama Legislative Officials.

Edwin A. Strickland, county atty., and Jeffrey M. Sewell, Birmingham, for appellee Jefferson County.

Tamara Harris Johnson, city atty., and Patricia Cole Burns, James C. Stanley, and Rowena Teague, Birmingham, for appellee City of Birmingham.

Frank M. Caprio of Bradley Arant Rose & White, LLP, Huntsville, for amicus curiae Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission, in support of the appellants.

SEE, Justice.1

The Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority ("the Authority"), the State of Alabama, the Alabama House of Representatives, the Alabama Senate, and certain officials of the House of Representatives and the Senate appeal from an order of the Jefferson Circuit Court declaring unconstitutional two acts passed by the Alabama Legislature. We hold that this case presents a nonjusticiable political question reserved to the legislature...

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