Court Opinion

ID: 7629624
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 18:18:32.062087+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:33.090601
License: Public Domain

If I had voted to quash the writ in Ex parte Sizemore,611 So.2d 1069 (Ala. 1993), as did all the other members of this Court, *Page 1304 
I would join Justice Steagall's dissent; however, I firmly believe that it is unconstitutional to bring a class action against the State of Alabama or its officers and agents in their official capacities, when a result favorable to the plaintiff would directly affect a property right of the state. Section 14 of the Alabama Constitution prohibits this; Ex parteSizemore, supra (Houston, J., dissenting). If the State Department of Revenue was made a party defendant in this class action, the action would directly affect a property right of the state.