# Henri-Duval Winery, LLC v. Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board

> Supreme Court of Alabama · May 1, 2009 · 26 So. 3d 1149

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4856175

## Case

- **Full name:** HENRI-DUVAL WINERY, L.L.C. v. ALABAMA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** May 1, 2009
- **Citations:** 26 So. 3d 1149; 2009 Ala. LEXIS 84; 2009 WL 1164969
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Murdock
- **Judges:** Bolin, Stuart, Smith, Parker, Shaw, Lyons, Woodall, Murdock, Cobb
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

MURDOCK, Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I concur in the affirmance of the trial court’s judgment on remand in this case, see Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board v. Henri-Duval Winery, L.L.C., 890 So.2d 70 (Ala.2004), except to the extent that the trial court determined that Henri-Duval Winery, L.L.C., has not been a “prevailing party” for purposes of recovering *1150 an attorney fee pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 . See, e.g., Grier v. Goetz, 421 F.Supp.2d 1061, 1068-69 (M.D.Tenn.2006) (discussing relevant United States Supreme Court precedents); James v. Alabama Coal, for Equity, Inc., 713 So.2d 937, 947 (Ala.1997) (quoting Texas State Teachers’ Ass’n v. Garland Indep. Sch. Dist., 489 U.S. 782, 789 , 109 S.Ct. 1486 , 103 L.Ed.2d 866 (1989)).
LYONS and WOODALL, JJ., concur.

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