Idusuyi v. City of Baton Rouge

Full title: DICKSON IDUSUYI ET AL. v. CITY OF BATON ROUGE/PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE

Court: Supreme Court of Louisiana

Date published: Jun 19, 1998

712 So. 2d 498 (La. 1998)

Opinion

NO. 98-CA-0087

June 19, 1998

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

Hon. Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Attorney General, Claude John Naquin, Jr., Esq., Frank J. Gremillion, Esq., Counsel for Appellant.

Gordon R. Crawford, Esq., Elliott James Redmond, Esq., Rick A. Caballero, Esq., DUE, CABALLERO, PERRY, PRICE GUIDRY; 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.