Case ID: so2d_538/html/0012-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      SHORES, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte Linda JACKSON. (In re Linda JACKSON v. COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY). Ex parte AMERICAN CAST IRON PIPE COMPANY. (In re Kenneth A. COX v. AMERICAN CAST IRON PIPE COMPANY).
    87-1512, 88-6.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Dec. 23, 1988.
    Linda S. Perry, Mobile, for petitioner Linda Jackson.
    Robert G. Tate of Burr & Forman, Birmingham, for petitioner American Cast Iron Pipe Co.
    Kirk C. Shaw of Armbrecht, Jackson, DeMouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, for respondent Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
    Franklin G. Shuler, Jr., and Jerome A. Cooper of Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuyk-endall & Whatley, Birmingham, for respondent Kenneth A. Cox.
   SHORES, Justice.

These two petitions for writ of mandamus raise the same issue: Is a party entitled to a jury trial in a retaliatory discharge action provided for in § 25-5-11.1, Code of Alabama 1975?

This question was answered in the affirmative by this Court’s extended opinion in Twilley v. Daubert Coated Products, Inc., 536 So.2d 1364 (Ala.1988) (on rehearing).

Accordingly, in Ex parte Jackson the writ is granted; and in Ex parte American Cast Iron Pipe Co. the writ is denied.

87-1512 WRIT GRANTED.

88-6 WRIT DENIED.

TORBERT, C.J., and JONES, ADAMS and STEAGALL, JJ., concur.