# Ex parte Jefferson County Department of Human Resources

> Supreme Court of Alabama · January 5, 1990 · 555 So. 2d 1077

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7579789

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex Parte Jefferson County Department of Human Resources and Alabama State Department of Human Resources. (Re Ex Parte Jefferson County Department of Human Resources and Alabama State Department of Human Resources.) (Re in the Matter of Mary Mahuren).
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** January 5, 1990
- **Citations:** 555 So. 2d 1077; 1990 Ala. LEXIS 2; 1990 WL 4426
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Maddox
- **Judges:** Maddox, Hornsby, Almon, Adams, Steagall
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

MADDOX, Justice.
By denying the writ, we point out that writs of certiorari are frequently denied without any consideration of the merits. Ex parte Buse, 549 So.2d 1344 (Ala.1989). A denial of certiorari should never be considered as an expression by the reviewing court on the merits of the controversy. See Hamilton Brown Shoe Co. v. Wolf Brothers, 240 U.S. 251 , 36 S.Ct. 269 , 60 L.Ed. 629 (1916).
WRIT DENIED.
HORNSBY, C.J., and ALMON, ADAMS and STEAGALL, JJ., concur.

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