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WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 59254.

350 So.2d 131 (1977)

Hayes WILLIAMS, Wardell Donahue, James C. Jones, Spencer Richardson, John D. Smith, et al., Plaintiffs-Relators, v. STATE of Louisiana, Governor Edwin Edwards, C. Murray Henderson, Warden of Angola, Mrs. Elayn Hunt, Director of Louisiana Department of Corrections, Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Dissenting Opinion October 11, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luke J. Fontana, D. Brian Soignier, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-applicants.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Michael C. Barron, Staff Atty., Baton Rouge, for defendants-respondents.

TATE, Justice.

The district court upheld the defendants' exception and dismissed this suit insofar as brought as a class action. We granted certiorari, 342 So.2d 868 (La.1977), to review the district court's ruling that the class action remedy, otherwise appropriate, was not available because of the variances in the damages resulting to each individual from the mass tort alleged.

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