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STEWART v. PARISH SCHOOL BD. OF PARISH OF ST. CHARLES

Civ. A. No. 69-2818.

310 F.Supp. 1172 (1970)

Frank T. STEWART, Joseph Lepine, Cal Berry, Stanford Caillouet, Sr., Rayfield Lewis, Eddie Williams, and Garland Weber, Petitioners, v. The PARISH SCHOOL BOARD OF the PARISH OF ST. CHARLES, and School District No. 1 of the Parish of St. Charles, Respondents.

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

February 25, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilmer G. Hinrichs, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Norman J. Pitre, Luling, La., Melvin P. Barre, Dist. Atty., 29th Judicial District, Edgard, La., E. E. Huppenbauer, Jr., J. Hugh Martin, Harold Judell, New Orleans, La., William P. Schuler, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants.

Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and CASSIBRY and MITCHELL, District Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This case involves the right to vote in a school bond election.

Louisiana laws, unlike the laws of thirty-six states, restrict eligibility to vote in bond elections to qualified voters who are "property taxpayers".1 In such elections the affluence of the voter is made the electoral standard by a requirement no other State imposes on the electorate: Political...

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