
    AAA COOPER TRANSPORTATION v. Jimmy SIMS.
    1961404.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    March 13, 1998.
    Rehearing Denied May 22, 1998.
    Kurt A. Powell of Hunton & Williams, Atlanta, GA; and James S. Hubbard, Anni-ston, for appellant.
    Philip E. Miles and Gregory S. Cusimano of Cusimano, Keener, Roberts & Kimberley, P.C., Gadsden; and Patrick Hughes of Rogers, Young, Wollstein & Hughes, L.L.C., An-niston, for appellee.
   SHORES, Justice. .

Pursuant to Rule 5, Ala. R.App. P., this Court granted AAA Cooper Transportation, Inc., permission -to appeal from an interlocutory order denying its motion for a summary judgment in an action brought by Jimmy Sims, alleging retaliatory discharge in violation of Ala.Code 1975, § 25-5-11.1.

AFFIRMED: NO OPINION. See Rule 53(a)(1) and (a)(2)(F), Ala. R.App. P.

ALMON, KENNEDY, COOK, and BUTTS, JJ., concur.

HOOPER, C.J., and MADDOX, HOUSTON, and SEE, JJ., dissent.

MADDOX, Justice

(dissenting).

Because I believe that the defendant AAA Cooper Transportation (“Cooper”) demonstrated that it terminated the plaintiff Jimmy Sims’s employment for a legitimate reason, and because I believe that Sims has presented no substantial evidence indicating that Cooper’s reason was a pretext for an impermissible termination, I do not believe that a jury question exists. Therefore, I must respectfully dissent. See Alexander v. Jitney Jungle Stores of America, Inc., 673 So.2d 402, 404 (Ala.1995) (Maddox, J., dissenting).

HOOPER, C.J., and HOUSTON, J., concur.  