Case ID: so2d_570/html/0252-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "KENNEDY, Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thomas Wayne TRAWICK and Judy R. Trawick v. MICHAELS OF OREGON COMPANY.
    89-0419-CER.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Oct. 11, 1990.
   ORDER

The order of this Court of September 12, 1990, is amended to read as follows:

The federal court having notified this Court that the case of Thomas Wayne Trawick and Judy R. Trawick v. Michaels of Oregon Company has been dismissed pursuant to a settlement agreement between the parties,

IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that this cause is dismissed as moot.

MADDOX, JONES, ALMON, SHORES, ADAMS, HOUSTON and STEAGALL, JJ., concur.

KENNEDY, J., dissents.

KENNEDY, Justice

(dissenting).

The litigants, the numerous amicus curiae involved in this action, and this Court have dedicated a substantial amount of time to evaluating the issues this action presents. Although the action has been settled, the important issue of the constitutionality of the limit imposed on punitive damages by Ala.Code 1975, § 6-11-21, remains. I believe that because of compelling public interest in the resolution of that issue, the judicial system and the people of Alabama would be better served if the action were fully reviewed by this Court.