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Parties Involved:
Alabama Department of Revenue
Defendant
Chambers County
Defendant
Gene Coggins
Plaintiff
State of Alabama
Defendant

Document Text:

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, EASTERN DIVISION

GENE COGGINS, )

)

Plaintiff, )

)

v. ) CIVIL ACTION NO.

) 3:07cv405-MHT

STATE OF ALABAMA, ALABAMA ) (WO)

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, )

and CHAMBERS COUNTY, )

)

Defendants. )

OPINION

By order entered May 15, 2007, this court ordered,

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i)-(iii), that

plaintiff Gene Coggins show cause in writing as to why

his lawsuit should not be dismissed without prejudice for

lack of subject-matter jurisdiction and because certain

defendants are immune from suit. Coggins submitted a

response to the show-cause order, but his response does

not reflect that he is asking for anything other than

that this court review a state-court judgment in

violation of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, nor does he say

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anything to refute that defendants State of Alabama

Alabama Department of Revenue are immune from suit under

the Eleventh Amendment. Coggins’s lawsuit will therefore

be dismissed, albeit without prejudice, pursuant to

§ 1915(e)(2)(B)(i)-(iii).

An appropriate judgment will be entered. 

DONE, this the 23rd day of May, 2007. 

 /s/ Myron H. Thompson 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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