United States Eleventh Circuit

Alabama Supreme Court asked to determine whether Alabama Court of the Judiciary provides an adequate forum for raising constitutional challenges to state's canon of judicial conduct or whether adequate review lies on appeal from the judiciary court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2001
• Published 03/27/2001

Judges

• EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, HILL and GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• H. Hampson Boles, Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, AL, for Amicus Curiae The Alabama State Bar.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Marcus Givhan,Charles A. Powell, III, James C. Barton, Sr., Johnston, Barton, Proctor, Swedlaw & Naff, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellants., Larry B. Childs, Walston, Wells, Anderson & Bains, Walton, Wales, Anderson & Bains, William J. Baxley, Baxley, Dillard, Dauphin & McKnight, Randall D. Quarles, Walson, Wells, Anderson & Bains, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.