Aland v. Graham

How courts have described this case

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• stating that this Court \will take notice of the question of jurisdiction at any time or even ex mero motu\
• permitting actions to enjoin State officials from enforcing an unconstitutional law
• quoted in Patterson v. Gladwin Corp., 835 So.2d 137, 142 (Ala.2002), and in turn in the main opinion
• “this court has held that Sec. 14 Svholly withdraws from the Legislature, or any other state authority, the power to give consent to a suit against the state.’”
• “[T]here are four general categories of actions that we have held do not come within the prohibition of Sec. 14[, Ala. Const.1901]. (1) Actions brought to compel State officials to perform their legal duties. (2
• Section 14 “wholly withdraws from the Legislature, or any other state authority, the power to give consent to a suit against the state” (quoting Dunn Constr. Co. v. State Bd. of Adjustment, 175 So. 3d 383, 386 (Ala. 1937))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).