METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS CHAPTER OF THE LOUISIANA CONSUMERS' LEAGUE, INC. v. COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 8108.

349 So.2d 400 (1977)

METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS CHAPTER OF the LOUISIANA CONSUMERS' LEAGUE, INC., People Power, Mary Elizabeth Pitts, Flossie Milford Simon, Brenda Davillier, Brother Kieran Dugas, Lynn Terrance, Alonde Harrison, Thelma Gath and Rita R. Smith v. The COUNCIL OF the CITY OF NEW ORLEANS and New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 8, 1977.

Writ Refused November 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garon, Brener and McNeely, John F. Robbert, David A. Marcello, Guy Huard, Jack Mark Stolier and Jane Johnson, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Burke & Ballard, James G. Burke, Jr. and Arthur A. Crais, Jr., William C. Nelson, New Orleans, for New Orleans Public Service, Inc. defendant-appellant.

Henry W. Kinney, III, New Orleans, for The Council of the City of New Orleans, defendant-appellant.

Before SAMUEL, LEMMON and GULOTTA, JJ.


SAMUEL, Judge.

By this suit against The Council of the City of New Orleans and New Orleans Public Service Inc. (NOPSI), plaintiffs seek an injunction prohibiting enforcement of a five cent increase in the transit rate charged by NOPSI, which increase was enacted by the City Council on November 11, 1975. Plaintiffs allege the five cent increase is null and void because the City of New Orleans, and more particularly the City Council, did not give sufficient public notice...

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