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TIMES-PICAYUNE PUB. CO. v. JOHNSON

No. 94-CA-0790.

645 So.2d 1174 (1994)

The TIMES-PICAYUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY, et al. v. Jon D. JOHNSON, State Senator, Emile "Peppi" Bruneau, Jr., State Representative; Naomi White-Warren Farve, State Representative; Garey J. Forster, State Representative; Arthur A. Morrell, State Representative; and Edwin Murray, State Representative.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 13, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack M. Weiss, III, Mark B. Holton, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittman & Hutchinson, New Orleans, for Times-Picayune Pub. Corp. and Peter Nicholas.

Lewis O. Unglesby, Unglesby & Koch, Baton Rouge, for Samuel B. Nunez, Jr., individually and as President of the La. State Senate, and the La. State Senate.

Alfred W. Speer, II, Baton Rouge, and Charles Emile Bruneau, Jr., New Orleans, for Emile Bruneau, Jr., Naomi White-Warren Farve, Garey Forster, Arthur Morrell, and Edwin Murray.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and CIACCIO and WARD, JJ.

WARD, Judge.

The Times-Picayune and its reporter, Peter Nicholas, requested of each Louisiana legislator an opportunity to view and copy their legislative scholarship nominations to Tulane University. After the plaintiffs failed to receive the cooperation and disclosure they sought, they filed this lawsuit for a declaratory judgment and mandamus, claiming Louisiana's Public Records Act gives them the right to view and copy those documents, and that these nominating...

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