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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HENRI-DUVAL WINERY, L.L.C. v. ALABAMA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD et al.
    1070257.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    May 1, 2009.
    Rehearing Denied June 19, 2009.
    J. Doyle Fuller and Susan G. Copeland of Law Office of J. Doyle Fuller, P.C., Montgomery; and Robert B. Roden of Shelby & Cartee, Birmingham, for appellant.
    James H. Anderson and Ryan Wesley Shaw of Beers, Anderson, Jackson, Patty & Fawal, P.C., for appellee Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
   BOLIN, Justice.

AFFIRMED. NO OPINION.

See Rule 53(a)(1) and (a)(2)(F), Ala. R.App. P.

STUART, SMITH, PARKER, and SHAW, JJ., concur.

LYONS, WOODALL, and MURDOCK, JJ., concur in part and dissent in part.

COBB, C.J., recuses herself.

LYONS, Justice

(concurring in part and dissenting in part).

I concur in the affirmance of the trial court’s judgment in this case in all respects except for the affirmance of the trial court’s disallowance of an attorney fee for Henri-Duval Winery, L.L.C. As to this issue, I join Justice Murdock’s special writing.

MURDOCK, Justice

(concurring in part and dissenting in part).

I concur in the affirmance of the trial court’s judgment on remand in this case, see Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board v. Henri-Duval Winery, L.L.C., 890 So.2d 70 (Ala.2004), except to the extent that the trial court determined that Henri-Duval Winery, L.L.C., has not been a “prevailing party” for purposes of recovering an attorney fee pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988. See, e.g., Grier v. Goetz, 421 F.Supp.2d 1061, 1068-69 (M.D.Tenn.2006) (discussing relevant United States Supreme Court precedents); James v. Alabama Coal, for Equity, Inc., 713 So.2d 937, 947 (Ala.1997) (quoting Texas State Teachers’ Ass’n v. Garland Indep. Sch. Dist., 489 U.S. 782, 789, 109 S.Ct. 1486, 103 L.Ed.2d 866 (1989)).

LYONS and WOODALL, JJ., concur.