# Ex Parte Butts

> Supreme Court of Alabama · July 21, 2000 · 775 So. 2d 173

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9931801

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex Parte Jimmy Butts in Re: Dalton Phillips v. Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** July 21, 2000
- **Citations:** 775 So. 2d 173; 2000 WL 1006962
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by See
- **Judges:** From, III, Lyons, Maddox, Parts, Rationale, See
- **Cited by:** 267 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9931801

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that further discovery was needed before the plaintiffs' wrongful-death action could be dismissed based upon the defendants' claim of State-agent immunity
- stating that officers have the authority to "enforce[ ] ... the criminal laws of the State"

## Opinion text

For the reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in Ex parte Cranman , [Ms. 1971903, June 16, 2000] ___ So.2d ___, ___ (Ala. 2000) (See, J., dissenting), I dissent from the adoption, in this case, of the test for State-agent immunity (also referred to as discretionary-function immunity or qualified immunity) set forth in the main opinion in Ex parte Cranman .

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