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AMOCO PRODUCTION CO. v. LANDRY

No. 13299.

426 So.2d 220 (1982)

AMOCO PRODUCTION CO., Columbia Gas Development Corp., Energy Ventures, Inc., Columbia Gulf Transmission Co., Diamond Shamrock Corp., Elf Aquitaine Oil & Gas, Forest Oil Corp., Cabot Corp., Northern Michigan Exploration Co., Sun Oil Co., and Sun Pipe Line Co., (Petitioners-Appellants), v. Paul L. LANDRY, Executive Secretary of the La. Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, (Defendant-Appellee), and Hosea Ware Bailey, Charles Leonidis Graves, Robert Kenneth Richie, Henry Robert Reeves, and McDermott Inc., (Intervenors-Appellees).

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 24, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip A. Wittmann, Sarah S. Vance, Steven W. Usdin, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, for petitioners-appellants.

Jarrell E. Godfrey, Jr., L. Havard Scott, III, Andrew Rinker, Jr., Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

Harry A. Rosenberg, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for intervenors-appellees.

Before SCHOTT, LOBRANO and AUGUSTINE, JJ.

LOBRANO, Judge.

Appellants, Amoco Production Co. and a number of other oil companies appeal from a judgment of the trial court denying their petition for mandamus. Appellants sought to compel the Louisiana Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors ("the Board") to allow inspections of certain alleged public documents pursuant to LSA-R.S. 44:1 et seq. (the Public Records Law). The documents in question consist of the records of disciplinary hearings before...

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