CHAPMAN v. GOODEN

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Troy King, atty. gen., and Kevin C. Newsom, deputy atty. gen., James W. Davis, Margaret L. Fleming, and Misty S. Fairbanks, asst. attys. gen., for appellants.

Edward Still of Edward Still Law Firm, LLC, Birmingham; Theodore M. Shaw, director, and Debo P. Adegbile and Ryan P. Haygood, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York; and Samuel Spital of Holland & Knight, New York, New York, for appellees.

S. Douglas Jones and Anil A. Mujumdar of Whatley Drake & Kallas, LLC, Birmingham; and Deborah Goldberg, Erika Wood, Renée Paradis, and Myrna Pérez of Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, New York, New York, for amici curiae Rev. Robert M. Alexander, Jr., Rev. Mary Bendall, Rev. Herbert Benson, Rev. Jerry E. Bledsoe, Rev. James Francis Brooks, Rev. Douglas Caddell, Rev. Reginald W. Calvert, Rev. Robert L. Cook, Rev. Solomon Crenshaw, Rev. J.W. Croom, Jr., Mr. Scott Douglas, Rev. G. Thomas Duley, Rev. James L. Evans, Rev. Wilson Fallin, Jr., Rev. K.C. Fink, Rev. Edgar Fisher, Rev. Thomas Earl Gilmore, Sr., Rev. Willie J. Gilmore, Jr., Rev. Perry Goins, Rev. Chris Hamlin, Rev. Tommy Hagler, Rev. P. Banneker Hatcherson, Rev. Dr. Lawton Higgs, Rev. Albert L. Hyche, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Rev. Edward O. Jackson, Dr. Stewart Jackson, Rev. David C. Jamison, Rev. Alfonza January, Sr., Rev. Fred Jemison, Rev. J. Stephen Jones, Rev. W.J. Luster, Rev. Perry Macon, Rev. L.P. McAdory, Mount Zion Baptist Church, Rev. Elizabeth O'Neill, Rev. Rick Owen, Rev. William Perry, Jr., Rev. Marion Russell, Sr., Saint John Missionary Baptist Church, Rev. Patrick Sellers, Rev. Walter Sims, Rev. Steve Small, Jr., Rev. Andra D. Sparks, The Ordinary People Society (T.O.P.S.), Pastor Vallie Thomas III, Rev. Charles W. Thomspon, Rev. Morrell Todd, Rev. S. William, Rev. Carlos D. Williams, Rev. Clasco P. Williams, Rev. H.L. Williams, Rev. Timothy D. Williams, and Rev. Gregory D. Woods.