Recently, I've been approaching highway driving a little differently. I look for opportunities to help another motorist out. I try to be a bit more aware of a turn signal that I can respond to rather than driving in the zone. What would happen if we all approached highway driving with the focus on helping each other arrive safely at our destinations? What if it were a team effort?
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Riley seeks A&M case court stay
Monday, October 20, 2008
By BOB LOWRY
Times Staff Writer bob.lowry@htimes.com
Governor wants4 blocked trusteesto be at meeting
MONTGOMERY - Gov. Bob Riley has asked the state Supreme Court to order an emergency stay of a trial judge's order that disqualified his appointment of four new Alabama A&M University trustees.
Riley is seeking to freeze Montgomery County Circuit Judge William Shashy's Sept. 19 order so the four former trustees can participate in a trustee meeting Friday in Birmingham.
But W. Troy Massey, the Montgomery lawyer who successfully sued Riley in the case, on Sunday filed a response with the high court, saying if it granted the stay it would be "substituting its judgment for that of the Alabama Senate."
"The public interest is not served by having four interlopers - who have been rejected by the Senate - vote on A&M University's $100 million-plus budget, contracts, bond issues, new hires, etc.," the motion said. "No facts constituting a real emergency are alleged."
The Senate Confirmations Committee voted 8-0 on May 7 to end the interim terms of Riley's appointees - David Slyman Jr. of Huntsville, Leroy C. Richie of Birmingham, Mich., Mayor Edward E. May of Bessemer and the Rev. Willie Clyde McNeil of Chatom.
But Riley turned around and reappointed them shortly after the legislative session ended. The four were instrumental in the March 31 firing of A&M President Robert Jennings, who has since sued the university.
In his filing with the Supreme Court on Sunday, Massey said Riley "purported to 'reappoint' Slyman, May, McNeil and Richie to the A&M board of trustees, thereby thumbing his nose, as it were, to the Senate's role of 'advice and consent.' "
Massey had said Friday that Riley planned to "fast-track" the appeal of Shashy's ruling to the Supreme Court so an opinion would be handed down before the Legislature convenes Feb. 9.
Riley's in-house legal advisers handled the case before Shashy, but he retained the Birmingham law firm of Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt to handle the appeal.
Albert Jordan, who is being paid $195 an hour by the state to handle the appeal, said he was not authorized by the Riley administration to comment on the case.
Jeff Emerson, Riley's chief spokesman, said earlier that having four vacancies on the board was "untenable because it means the absence of just one remaining trustee prevents a quorum and the board will not be able to function. That could never have been the intent of the Legislature."
Excluding the four former trustees invalided by Shashy's ruling, the A&M board now has eight sitting trustees, including the governor. The board needs seven trustees to take a vote, excluding the governor, who is board chairman.
Shashy ruled that once the A&M trustees were rejected by the Senate committee, they could no longer serve in an interim capacity.
In his ruling, Shashy relied on a 1997 Auburn University case in which two trustees lost their seats after they failed to win Senate confirmation.
In an earlier brief, Massey said the language in the Auburn case was "the identical language found in the A&M vacancy statue."
Sonny Reagan, Riley's deputy legal adviser, argued in circuit court that two laws cover appointments to the A&M board. He said the most recent, approved in 1995, should prevail over the one cited by Massey. The 1995 law explains in much more detail the creation and composition of the board, such as representation from congressional districts, at-large members, ex-officio members and those who must hold degrees from A&M.
Massey sued Riley and the former trustees on behalf of Robert T. Hughes of Florence, a former A&M trustee, and David Marzette of Birmingham, the financial secretary of A&M's National Alumni Association.
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