United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of claim that certain tax provisions of the Alabama Constitution violate the U.S. Constitution, where the provisions so seriously underfund public education in Alabama that they have a segregative effect on the state's colleges and universities, is affirmed as the challenged tax policies have not undermined the desegregative process to a level that even remotely triggers the Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/31/2007
• Published 01/31/2007

Judges

• HILL, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and HILL and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, for Appellants., Robert D. Segall, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, Mark Sabel, Sabel & Sabel, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• John B. Tally, Jr., Adams & Reese/Lange Simpson, LLP, W. Braxton Schell, Jr., Robert D. Hunter, Altec, Inc., Birmingham, AL, Edward M. George, Jeffery A. Foshee, Foshee & George, L.L.C., Reginald L. Sorrells, Larry E. Craven, Darnell Delacey Coley, State of AL, Dept. of Educ., Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Montgomery, AL, Randall M. Woodrow, Doster & Woodrow, Anniston, AL, Armand Georges Derfner, Derfner, Altman & Wilborn, LLC, Charleston, SC, Fred D. Gray, Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray & Nathanson, Tuskegee, AL, Norma Mungenast Lemley, University of Al. System/Office of Counsel, Tuscaloosa, AL, for Appellees.