Ex parte Rivers, [Ms. SC-2025-0301, Sept. 26, 2025] __ So. 3d __ (Ala. 2025). The Court (Lewis, J.; Stewart, C.J., and Wise, Sellers, Cook, and McCool, JJ., concur; Shaw, J., concurs specially, with opinion; Bryan, J., concurs in the result; Mendheim, J., recuses) issues a writ of mandamus to the Mobile Circuit Court vacating its transfer of a declaratory judgment action against an LLC to Madison County. The Court holds that proper venue in an action against an LLC is controlled by the corporate venue statute
We agree with the reasoning set forth in Justice Mitchell’s special writing in Ex parte Alabama Power Co., as well as the discussion set forth by the Court of Civil Appeals in Ex parte Honda that the statute governing venue for corporations, i.e., § 6-3-7, applies to a case such as the present case, which involves LLCs. To the extent that prior cases such as Ex parte WMS, LLC, 170 So. 3d 645 (Ala. 2014), hold otherwise, they are overruled. Accordingly, we conclude that the Mobile Circuit Court erred in granting the motion to change venue, which was based on the rationale that the applicable venue statute is § 6-3-2 [governing actions against individuals].
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