LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 66024.

381 So.2d 441 (1980)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NEW ORLEANS et al. v. The CITY OF NEW ORLEANS et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Robbert, New Orleans, amicus curiae by New Orleans Coalition, Inc.

Albert Mintz, Patrick J. Browne, Nathan T. Gisclair, Jr., Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, New Orleans, for defendant-respondent, City Council of the City of New Orleans.

Robert E. Harroun, III, Baton Rouge, for Legislative Auditor, respondent.

Arthur L. Ballin, New Orleans, for Bd. of Assessors, respondents.

Salvador Anzelmo, Acting City Atty., Debra J. Fischman, Asst. City Atty., for defendants-respondents, the Mayor of the City of New Orleans and the City of New Orleans.

Vernon V. Palmer, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-applicants, League of Women Voters of New Orleans, et al.

Richard J. McGinity, McGinity & McGinity, New Orleans, for Bd. of Levee Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District, respondent.


WATSON, Justice.*

This case presents basically the question of whether plaintiffs are entitled to a writ of mandamus directing various governmental agencies and officials to comply with Act 617 of 1977, as amended by Act 614 of 1978,1 thereby recouping for the City of New Orleans and the Orleans Levee Board certain revenues alleged to have been lost through failure...

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