Buckley v. Sprull

Full title: ALFRED BUCKLEY AND LORRAINE BUCKLEY v. GERARD SPRULL AND CITY OF BATON…

Court: Supreme Court of Louisiana

Date published: Jun 19, 1998

712 So. 2d 499 (La. 1998)

Opinion

NO. 98-CA-0030

June 19, 1998

ON APPEAL FROM THE NINETEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, THE HONORABLE BOB DOWNING, PRESIDING JUDGE.

Michael Elven Ponder, Esq., James Joseph Zito, Esq., Counsel for Appellant.

Christopher Whitting, Esq., L. Dean Fryday, Jr., Esq., Ronald R. Johnson, Esq., Counsel for Appellee.

PER CURIAM[fn*] [fn*] Johnson, J., not on panel. Rule IV., Part 2, § 3.

The City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge appeal directly to this court pursuant to La. Const. Art. V, § 5(D) from a ruling of the district court declaring La.R.S. 13:5105(C), La.R.S. 13:5105(D) and City/Parish Resolution 36859 unconstitutional.

For the reasons assigned in Kimball v. Allstate Ins. Co., 97-2885 c/w 97-2956 (La. 4/14/98), ___ So.2d ___, the judgment of the district court declaring La.R.S. 13:5105(C) unconstitutional is affirmed. The judgment of the district court declaring La.R.S. 13:5105(D) and City/Parish Resolution 36859 unconstitutional is reversed, and the case is remanded to the district court for further proceedings.