IN RE BIENVENU

No. 6011.

158 So.2d 213 (1963)

In re Investigation of Alleged Discrimination against Mrs. Lite B. BIENVENU, Applicant for Public Welfare Director II Position, St. Martin Parish.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 16, 1963.

Writ Refused February 7, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace G. Pepper, Chief Counsel, Department of Public Welfare, and Robert L. Roland, of Watson, Blanche, Wilson, Posner & Thibaut, Baton Rouge, for Mrs. Mary Evelyn Parker, Commissioner of Public Welfare.

Louis S. Quinn, General Counsel, Department of State Civil Service, Baton Rouge, Richard C. Cadwallader, Baton Rouge, for Mrs. Lite B. Bienvenu.

Ralph D. Dwyer, Jr., New Orleans, for Louisiana Civil Service League, amicus curiae.

Before ELLIS, LOTTINGER, HERGET, LANDRY and REID, JJ.


ELLIS, Judge.

This is an appeal by Mrs. Mary Evelyn Parker, Commissioner of Welfare, from a decision of the State Civil Service Commission in an investigation by public hearing as a result of a charge by Mrs. Lite B. Bienvenu that she had failed to obtain an appointment as Director of the St. Martin Parish Department of Public Welfare through political pressure applied to the appointing authority. Subsequent to an investigation...

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