Ex Parte the Boys and Girls Clubs of South Alabama, Inc. (in Re State of Alabama v. the Boys and Girls Clubs…

Summary

The court held that the later-filed Baldwin County declaratory-judgment action was barred because the earlier Mobile County action involved the same cause and substantially identical parties or parties in privity. The alleged defect in the Mobile action concerned failure to state a claim, not standing, and therefore did not deprive the Mobile Circuit Court of subject-matter jurisdiction. The court granted mandamus and directed dismissal of the Baldwin action.