Lawyers for Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday asked a federal court to dismiss the lawsuit against her filed recently by Kent Davis, the former commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs Ivey terminated.
The motion was filed in U.S. District Court by attorneys from Maynard Nexsen, the firm hired recently to defend Ivey against the lawsuit.
“After a long series of actions and statements by Plaintiff that, by his own account, seriously and self-evidently undermined the orderly functioning of state government, the Governor terminated Plaintiff from his position as Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs (the “Department”),” the filing says. “In response, Plaintiff has run to federal court and lodged a bevy of federal and state-law claims in hopes of returning to power and collecting from the State’s coffers…