FERRARA v. STATE OF LOUISIANA

Civ. A. No. 70-639.

322 F.Supp. 1293 (1970)

Leonard L. FERRARA, Roman C. Peré, Frank A. Petit, Donald J. Villarubia, Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF LOUISIANA, through the offices of the Honorable John J. McKeithen, Governor, the Louisiana Department of Public Safety, Division of State Police through the offices of William E. Dent, Jr., Director, the Louisiana Department of Civil Service, through the offices of Harold E. Forbes, Director, and Mrs. Mary Evelyn Parker, Treasurer of the State of Louisiana, Defendants.

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

October 13, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney M. Bach, Bernstein & Bach, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Moise Dennery, Dept. of Civil Service, New Orleans, La., Willie Maynor, Dept. of Public Safety, Baton Rouge, La., William P. Schuler, Asst. Atty. Gen. of La., for defendants.


CASSIBRY, District Judge:

This is a suit to force the State of Louisiana to pay certain of its State Troopers overtime pay provided for in a State Legislative Act.1

The original plaintiffs are all retired Louisiana State Police Troopers. Subsequent to the filing of the original petition, the proceedings were converted into a class action on behalf of all Louisiana State Troopers who had been employed during the period July 27,...

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