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ARATA v. LOUISIANA STADIUM AND EXPOSITION DISTRICT

No. 49803.

225 So.2d 362 (1969)

254 La. 579

George J. ARATA v. The LOUISIANA STADIUM AND EXPOSITION DISTRICT, and the Board of Commissioners thereof, Honorable John J. McKeithen, Governor of Louisiana, Honorable Bernard F. Sliger, Commissioner of Administration, Mrs. Mary Evelyn Parker, Treasurer of the State of Louisiana, and the Louisiana State Bond Commission.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Dissenting Opinion June 30, 1969.

Rehearing Denied July 21, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Matthews & Schumacher, Glen G. Magnuson, Jr., Harry B. Kelleher, Gerald P. Fedoroff, Foley, Judell, Beck, Morel & Bewley, Harold B. Judell, John E. Jackson, Jr., New Orleans, Wood, King, Dawson, Love & Sabatine, New York City, for appellants.

Sidney M. Bach, New Orleans, Alvin J. Liska, City Atty., Beuker F. Amann, Jackson P. McNeely, Asst. City Attys., for amicus curiae.

Blake G. Arata, Doyle, Smith, Doyle, Gordon, Arata & Watters, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Paul O. H. Pigman, Phillip A. Wittmann, David Stone, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., James J. Thornton, Jr., Johnston, Johnston & Thornton, Shreveport, for intervenors-appellees.

SUMMERS, Justice.

The question presented by this suit is whether the transactions executed to effectuate the planning, financing, construction, development, maintenance and operation of a domed stadium project are contrary to the constitutional amendment adopted in 1966 authorizing the project.

By Act 556 of 1966 the Legislature adopted by more than a two-thirds vote, a joint resolution proposing the constitutional amendment in question. The amendment

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