United States Eleventh Circuit

Alabama compounding statute does not apply to a City Attorney's actions when dismissing charges against an individual in exchange for a release of civil liability, and, as a result, the release agreement that plaintiff signed was valid and barred her pursuit of civil claims against defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/17/2004
• Published 08/17/2004

Judges

• DUBINA, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA, CARNES and CUDAHY , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Stephen Harper, Schmitt, Harper & Smith, P.C., Tallassee, AL, Frank H. Hawthorne, Jr., Hawthorne, Hawthorne & Vance, L.L.C., Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher K. Whitehead, Monet McCorvey Gaines, Whitehead & Mills, LLC, H. Lewis Gillis, Kenneth L. Thomas, Thomas, Means & Gillis, P.C., Christine Harris Jackson, Webb & Eley, P.C., Walter R. Byars, Montgomery, AL, Valerie L. Acoff, Thomas, Means & Gillis, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.