# Alexander v. City of Bessemer

> Supreme Court of Alabama · October 18, 2013 · 142 So. 3d 543

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4812921

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex parte CITY OF BESSEMER (In re Louise Alexander and White, Arnold & Dowd, P.C. v. City of Bessemer)
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** October 18, 2013
- **Citations:** 142 So. 3d 543; 2013 Ala. LEXIS 149; 2013 WL 5663871
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Moore
- **Judges:** Bryan, Main, Moore, Murdock, Parker, Shaw, Stuart, Wise
- **Cited by:** 12 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that " § 11-47-190 creates an exception to the general rule of immunity for municipalities ('[n]o city or town shall be liable ... unless') when a plaintiff has suffered injury as a result of 'the neglect, carelessness or unskillfulness' of some agent, or when the plain…
- noting the "general rule of immunity for municipalities" under § 11-47-190 and the exceptions to that rule

## Opinion text

MOORE, Chief Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
Because I would deny the petition for a writ of mandamus on the issues raised by both the City of Bessemer and its city councillors, I concur in denying the peti *554 tion on the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against the councillors alleging racial discrimination, but I dissent to granting the petition on count two of the second amended complaint because I believe, as the trial court stated, that there could exist a set of facts under which Louise Alexander and White, Arnold & Dowd, P.C., would be entitled to relief.

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