999 So. 2d 939 - Edwards v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
9 state decisions
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · State Bd. of Educ. v. Waldrop · 534 So. 2d 1038 - Oliver v. Townsend · 963 So. 2d 112 - Blankenship v. Blankenship
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““ ‘[A]n unadjudicated claim for an attorney’s fee does not affect the finality of a judgment.’ [Blankenship v. Blankenship] 963 So.2d [112,] 114 n. 2 [ (Ala.Civ.App.2007) ]. In Blankenship, which (like this case) involved a judgment of divorce, we cited State Board of Education v. Waldrop, 840 So.2d 893 (Ala.2002), in which the Alabama Supreme Court (whose decisions bind this court, see § 12-3-16, Ala.Code 1975) expressly recognized that ‘a decision on the merits disposing of all claims is a final decision from which an appeal must be timely taken, whether a request for attorney fees remains for adjudication.’ 840 So.2d at 899 ; accord Stiff v. Ala-bama Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd., 933 So.2d 348 , 352 n. 7 (Ala.2006) (ruling that trial court’s entry of a summary judgment in favor of defendants on all claims was not, under Waldrop , to be construed as denying plaintiffs request for an award of attorney fees); cf. Niezer v. SouthTrust Bank, 887 So.2d 919, 923 (Ala.Civ.App.2004) (‘attorney-fee matters are separate and distinct from matters going to the merits of a dispute and ... an appeal may be taken from a final judgment as to either aspect of a case’).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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