DEAN v. GUSTE

No. 12933.

414 So.2d 862 (1982)

Lynn B. DEAN v. Honorable William J. GUSTE, Jr., Attorney General, of the State of Louisiana, Honorable John F. Rowley, District Attorney for the Parish of St. Bernard and the St. Bernard Parish School Board.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied July 2, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Rowley, Dist. Atty., Nunzio S. Cusimano, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Chalmette, for defendants-appellees.

Roy A. Raspanti, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Before BARRY, AUGUSTINE and WILLIAMS, JJ.


AUGUSTINE, Judge.

The primary question which we are called upon to decide in this case is whether the rule of the St. Bernard Parish School Board prohibiting the sound recording of executive sessions by any member of the board violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Petitioner, Lynn B. Dean, is a member of the St. Bernard Parish School Board.

In February, 1981, the School Board, by a vote of 10 to 1, enacted a rule prohibiting...

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