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Ex Parte Civil Service Bd.

Supreme Court of Alabama
Oct 19, 1990
571 So. 2d 1125 (Ala. 1990)

Opinion

89-1324.

October 19, 1990.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Colbert County, No. CV-89-385, John L. Madison, J.

David R. Boyd and W. Joseph McCorkle, Jr. of Balch Bingham, Montgomery, for petitioner.

David Cromwell Johnson, Birmingham, and William R. Hovater, Tuscumbia, for respondent.


In quashing this writ, we must emphasize that the Civil Service Act creating the Civil Service Board of the City of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, does not mandate prehearing discovery, but that such discovery upon request of the parties is a matter of discretion with the Board, subject to judicial review.

WRIT QUASHED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

HORNSBY, C.J., and JONES, SHORES and KENNEDY, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Ex Parte Civil Service Bd.

Supreme Court of Alabama
Oct 19, 1990
571 So. 2d 1125 (Ala. 1990)
Case details for

Ex Parte Civil Service Bd.

Case Details

Full title:Ex parte CIVIL SERVICE BOARD OF the CITY OF MUSCLE SHOALS, Alabama. (Re…

Court:Supreme Court of Alabama

Date published: Oct 19, 1990

Citations

571 So. 2d 1125 (Ala. 1990)

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