CITY OF PRICHARD v. BALZER

1100950.

95 So.3d 1 (2012)

CITY OF PRICHARD v. Scott A. BALZER et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

April 20, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suzanne Paul and C. Michael Smith of Paul & Smith, P.C., Mobile; and R. Scott Williams and Latanishia D. Watters of Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, Birmingham, for appellant.

Donald J. Stewart and Thomas B. Humphries of Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardener, Dumas & O'Neal, LLP, Mobile, for appellees.

Matthew H. Lembke and Anna Manasco Dionne of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Birmingham; and Jeffrey M. Sewell , county atty., Birmingham, for amicus curiae Jefferson County, in support of the appellant.


WISE, Justice.

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, Southern Division ("the federal district court"), has certified to this Court the following question pursuant to Rule 18, Ala. R.App. P.:

"Whether Ala.Code § 11-81-3 (1975) (as amended) requires that an Alabama municipality have refunding or funding bond indebtedness as a condition of eligibility to proceed under Chapter 9 of Title 11 of the United States Code?"

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