MORIAL v. GUSTE

No. 9690.

365 So.2d 289 (1978)

Honorable Ernest N. MORIAL, Mayor of the City of New Orleans and Honorable Joseph I. Giarrusso, Councilman-At-Large and President of the Council of the City of New Orleans v. Honorable William J. GUSTE, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, and Honorable Harry Connick, District Attorney For the Parish of Orleans.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writs Refused December 14, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Hoffman, City Atty. and David A. Marcello, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees.

William F. Wessel, New Orleans, for Harry Connick, defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Warren E. Mouledoux, First Asst. Atty. Gen., and Ronald C. Davis, Staff Atty., New Orleans, for Honorable William J. Guste, Jr., defendant.

Before SAMUEL, BOUTALL and SCHOTT, JJ.


SAMUEL, Judge.

This suit for declaratory relief was filed by Ernest N. Morial, Mayor of the City of New Orleans, and Joseph I. Giarrusso, Councilman at Large and President of the New Orleans City Council, seeking determination of the status, as against the Louisiana Public Meetings Law,1 of a proposed informal meeting between the Mayor and other members of his staff and any City Council members who chose to attend. Plaintiffs allege the...

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