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Columbiana signs on to support Mountain Brook appeal over municipal flood-liability ruling
Summary
The council adopted a resolution to join an amicus brief supporting the city of Mountain Brook’s appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court after a summary judgment raised concerns about broad municipal liability for stormwater flooding.
The Columbiana City Council voted to sign onto an amicus brief supporting the city of Mountain Brook’s appeal to the Supreme Court of Alabama after a lower-court summary judgment, officials said, raised a potentially broad new municipal liability standard for stormwater flooding.
City legal counsel and the mayor summarized the concern: a recent summary judgment could be interpreted to impose effectively strict or unlimited liability on municipalities when…
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