State Supreme Court Reverses Ruling on Wrongful Termination, Finds for Alabama State University

Alabama’s Supreme Court has reversed a circuit court, which had ruled that Alabama State University (ASU) wrongfully terminated athletic director Stacy Danley.   In a majority decision, the justices found that the legal principles of sovereign and state-agent immunities should have been applied in the case when it was before the lower court.   Danley, a former football star at Auburn University and AD at Division II Tuskegee Institute, was named AD at ASU in 2010. Three years later,