Case Title: Ex parte Birmingham City Board of Education. PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS (In re: Birmingham City Board of Education v. Carla Hawkins)

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Docket Number: 1090792

State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 2010-05-07T00:00:00Z

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REL: 05/07/2010
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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
OCTOBER TERM, 2009-2010
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1090792
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Ex parte Birmingham City Board of Education
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS
(In re:  Birmingham City Board of Education
v.
Carla Hawkins)
(Montgomery Circuit Court, CV-09-7;
Court of Civil Appeals, 2080784)
LYONS, Justice.
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The petition for the writ of certiorari is denied.  See
Rule 39(d)(3), Ala. R. App. P.
In denying the petition for the writ of certiorari, this
Court does not wish to be understood as approving all the
language, reasons, or statements of law in the Court of Civil
Appeals’ opinion.  Horsley v. Horsley, 291 Ala. 782, 280 So.
2d 155 (1973).
WRIT DENIED.
Woodall, Stuart, Smith, Bolin, Parker, and Shaw, JJ.,
concur.
Cobb, C.J., and Murdock, J., dissent.
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COBB, Chief Justice (dissenting).
Although the petitioner in this case filed its petition
in the form of a brief rather than by explicitly following the
form specified by Rule 39, Ala. R. App. P., I believe the
legal arguments and analysis in that brief were in substantial
compliance with Rule 39. Under these circumstances, I conclude
that the petitioner presented  sufficient indicia of merit to
support granting this petition.  Accordingly, I respectfully
dissent. 
Murdock, J., concurs.