DRISKELL v. EDWARDS

No. 74-4020.

518 F.2d 890 (1975)

Reverend Herman L. DRISKELL et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Honorable Edwin W. EDWARDS, Governor, State of Louisiana, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry L. Finley, Monroe, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert G. Pugh, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Shreveport, La., Kenneth W. DeJean, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and GODBOLD and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

This much-traveled case comes to us as an appeal from the determination by a single district judge that the constitutional attack before him did not need to be heard by a three-Judge Court because the question presented was insubstantial and the case inappropriate for injunctive relief. We reverse.

Act 2 of the 1972 Louisiana Legislature called a convention to convene January 5, 1973 and frame a new state constitution. One delegate...

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