SAVE OUR WETLANDS, INC. v. ORLEANS LEVEE BD.

No. 9812.

368 So.2d 1210 (1979)

SAVE OUR WETLANDS, INC. (SOWL) and Neal Foy, v. ORLEANS LEVEE BOARD and Guy LeMieux as President of the Orleans Levee Board.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip R. Johnson, Metairie, for Save Our Wetlands, Inc. et al., appellant.

Richard J. McGinity, McGinity & McGinity, New Orleans, for Orleans Levee Board et al., defendants-appellees.

Trudy H. Oppenheim, Trudy H. Oppenheim, P.C., New Orleans, for Pilot's Association of Greater New Orleans, intervenors-appellees.

Before SAMUEL, STOULIG and BOUTALL, JJ.


BOUTALL, Judge.

This is a suit for injunctive relief to prohibit expansion of the New Orleans Lakefront Airport by use of the water bottom of the adjoining Lake Pontchartrain.

Save Our Wetlands, Inc. (Sowl) and Neal Foy brought suit against the Orleans Levee Board and Guy LeMieux as its President contending that the expansion violated Louisiana Revised Statute 38:1235.2(B) which prohibits any construction beyond a "front line of development" where such a front...

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