NATIONAL FOOD STORES OF LOUISIANA, INC. v. CEFALU

No. 52679.

280 So.2d 903 (1973)

NATIONAL FOOD STORES OF LOUISIANA, INC. v. Hon. Earle CEFALU, Mayor, Town of Amite, Louisiana, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied August 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guste, Barnett & Colomb, William M. Barnett, Sidney L. Shushan, New Orleans, for plaintiff-respondent.

Schilling & Simpson, Edwin C. Schilling, Jr., Amite, for defendants-applicants.


CALOGERO, Justice.

The plaintiff, National Food Stores of Louisiana, Inc. seeks injunctive relief prohibiting the Town of Amite and certain elected officials therein from enforcing its Town Ordinance No. 291. This ordinance is commonly referred to as a "Sunday Closing Law", and had been used to prohibit plaintiff from operating a supermarket within the city limits of Amite on Sunday. Plaintiff alleges that this local ordinance...

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