IN THE SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA

September 3, 2010

1090878

John M. Tyson, Jr., individually and in his official capacity

as special prosecutor for and counsel to the Governor's Task
Force on Illegal Gambling v. E. Paul Jones et al. (Appeal
from Macon Circuit Court: cv­ 2010-15).
1090939

Ex parte John M. Tyson, Jr. (In re: E. Paul Jones et al. v.

John M. Tyson, Jr., individually and in his official capacity
as special prosecutor for and counsel to the Governor's Task
Force on Illegal Gambling) (Macon Circuit Court: CV-10-15).

ORDER DENYING APPLICATIONS FOR REHEARING

The applications for rehearing in this consolidated case

are overruled.

In their applications for rehearing, the plaintiffs raise

questions concerning the original assignment of this case to

one Justice and its reassignment to another Justice. This

case originally was assigned to Justice Patricia Smith. The

issues in this case substantially overlap the issues that were

presented and addressed in Ex parte State of Alabama (In re:

Governor Bob Riley v. Cornerstone Community Outreach, Inc.,

and State of Alabama v. Chad Dickie), [Ms. 1090808, May 21,

2010] So. 3d __ (Ala. 2010) ("Cornerstone n ) , originally

assigned to and authored by Justice Glenn Murdock and released

by this Court on May 21, 2010. Accordingly, in the interest

of judicial economy, responsibility for preparing an opinion

in this case for consideration by the entire court was

properly transferred to Justice Murdock in May 2010, prior to

the release of the opinion in Cornerstone. Upon completion of

the opinion in this case and in anticipation of its release,

the formal reassignment of this case to Justice Murdock was

entered by the Clerk on the Court's records on July 19, 2010.

Reassignment of cases from one Justice to another occurs in

the normal course of the Court's business.

Cobb, C.J., and Lyons, Woodall, Stuart, Smith, Bolin,

Parker, Murdock, and Shaw, JJ., concur.