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

No. 96-957.
    Jefferson, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Jefferson, Deceased, et al. v. City of Tarrant, Alabama.
   Sup. Ct. Ala. Certiorari granted limited to the following question: “Whether, when a decedent’s death is alleged to have resulted from a deprivation of federal rights occurring in Alabama, the Alabama Wrongful Death Act, Ala. Code §6-5-410 (1993), governs the recovery by the representative of the decedent’s estate under 42 U. S. C. § 1983?”