Case ID: so2d_724/html/1137-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John DOBBS and Audrey Dobbs v. Don SIEGELMAN et al.
    1970157.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Sept. 25, 1998.
    Rehearing Denied Nov. 25, 1998.
    Albert L. Jordan and Michael L. Jackson of Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham; and Algert S. Agricola, Jr., of Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Montgomery, for appellants.
    Bill Pryor, atty. gen.; and John J. Park, Jr., and Robert M. Weinberg, asst, attys. gen., for appellees State of Alabama, the Alabama Senate, and Governor Fob James.
    Maury D. Smith and Carl L. Evans, Jr., of Balch & Bingham, L.L.P., Montgomery, for appellee Speaker of the House James S. Clark.
    Hugh R. Evans III, asst, director and general counsel, Alabama Ethics Commission, for appellees Alabama Ethics Commission and its members, H. Dean Buttram, Jr., James Pursell, Henry B. Gray III, Camille S. Butrus, and Helen Shores Lee.
   ALMON, Justice.

AFFIRMED. NO OPINION.

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

SHORES, KENNEDY, COOK, and LYONS, JJ., concur.

MADDOX, J., concurs specially.

MADDOX, Justice

(concurring specially).

I concur to affirm, but would point out that I did not vote in Ex parte Sierra Club, 674 So.2d 54 (Ala.1995), a case cited by the trial judge, and I do not necessarily agree with the holding of that case that “a declaratory judgment action is not convertible to a quo warranto action.” 674 So.2d at 58. The provisions of Rule 1, Ala. R. Civ. P., it appears to me, do not major in style but in substance.