STATE v. LUPO

1050224.

984 So.2d 395 (2007)

STATE of Alabama v. Diane Burnett LUPO.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 12, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Troy King, atty. gen., and Kevin Newsom, deputy atty. gen., and Billington M. Garrett, asst. atty. gen., Montgomery, for appellant.

Mark W. Lee, Dorothy A. Powell, and J. Alex Wyatt III of Parsons, Lee & Juliano, P.C., Birmingham, for appellee.

Matthew C. McDonald of Miller, Hamilton, Snider & Odom, L.L.C., Mobile, for amicus curiae Alabama Retail Association, in support of the appellee.

William H. Brooks and Ivan B. Cooper of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC, Birmingham; and C. Dylan Sanders and Lisa S. Core of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US, LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, for amicus curiae National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, in support of the appellee.

Robert M. Hill, Jr., Florence, for amicus curiae University of North Alabama, in support of the appellee.

Dominick Matranga of Hicks Matranga & Osborne, Mobile; and Clark Neily and William H. Mellor, Institute of Justice, Arlington, Virginia, for amicus curiae Alabama Decorators, Artists, and Designers Right to Work Coalition (ADAD), in support of the appellee.

Robin Brigham Thetford and Joseph D. Thetford of Thetford & Thetford, Mobile, for amicus curiae National Kitchen & Bath Association, in support of the appellee.


SMITH, Justice.

The State of Alabama, by and through the Alabama State Board of Registration for Interior Design ("the Board"), appeals from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court declaring the Alabama Interior Design Consumer Protection Act, Act No. 2001-660, Ala. Acts 2001 ("the Act"), codified at § 34-15B-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975, unconstitutional. We affirm.

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