BREWSTER, District Judge.
The question in this case is whether repeated appointments by a Louisiana state court of counsel to represent indigent defendants in criminal cases amounts to a taking of their property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Louisiana provides no compensation for such work.
The trial court dismissed the appellants' damage and injunction suit for lack...
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