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KOHLER v. TUGWELL

Civ. A. No. 68-253.

292 F.Supp. 978 (1968)

Claude L. KOHLER, David L. Burnes and Rene S. Wogan, individually and as citizens, taxpayers and voters of the State of Louisiana, for themselves and all other persons similarly situated and the Penniston-General Taylor Association and the Uptown Civic Association, Plaintiffs, v. A. P. TUGWELL, individually and as Treasurer of the State of Louisiana, Neville Levy, individually and as Chairman of the Mississippi River Bridge Authority and/or the Greater New Orleans Mississippi River Bridge Authority and Arsene L. Stewart, individually and as Director of the Department of Highways for the State of Louisiana and John J. McKeithen, individually and as Governor of the State of Louisiana, and their successors in office, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

Judgment Affirmed February 24, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald V. Organ, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Jack P. Gremillion, William P. Schuler, Baton Rouge, La., William P. Curry, Jr., Louis B. Porterie, Jesse S. Guillot, New Orleans, La., for defendants.

Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and BOYLE and RUBIN, District Judges.

Judgment Affirmed February 24, 1969. See 89 S.Ct. 879.

RUBIN, District Judge:

Louisiana citizens seek an injunction prohibiting any action under the authority of a state constitutional amendment adopted in 1966 on the ground that the designation of the amendment as it appeared on the state ballot misled voters. Hence, they contend that those who voted in favor of the enactment were deprived of their right to vote, and were denied both Due Process of Law

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