CITY OF NEW ORLEANS v. TREEN

Nos. C-0139, CA-0154.

421 So.2d 282 (1982)

The CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, Honorable Ernest N. Morial, Mayor of the City of New Orleans and Gail Broussard, Jerome S. Glazer, Dr. Robert Azar, Stephen Manshel and Peter Coleman, all Commissioners of the Audubon Park Commission and Intervenors, Mitch Ledet, Joe Knecht, Brendolyn McKenna, Phil Baptiste, George Ethel Warren, Edgar Poree, Alice Mayer Katz, and Felicia Kahn v. Honorable David C. TREEN, Governor of the State of Louisiana and Mrs. Lawrence H. Fox, Secretary of Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism and Intervenors, Friends of the Zoo, Inc., Mrs. Brooke H. Duncan, Mrs. James K. Wadick, III, Mr. Julian B. Feibelman, Jr., Ms. Elizabeth Wisdom, Mrs. George Cary, Jr., Mr. Harry B. Kelleher, Jr., Mrs. Lane T. DeBardeleben, Mr. Louis L. Frierson, Mrs. Daniel H. Walsh, Dr. David F. Bradley, Mr. J. Freyhan Odenheimer and Mrs. Hughes P. Walmsley.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 11, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Salvador Anzelmo, City Atty., Galen S. Brown, Jack P. McNeely and T.W. Milliner, Asst. City Attys., New Orleans, for City of New Orleans, et al.

Warren Goldstein, New Orleans, for Mitch Ledet, et al.

Phillip A. Wittmann, Judy Y. Barrasso, Steven W. Usdin, of Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, for Jerome S. Glazer.

Henry W. Kinney, III, New Orleans, for Friends of the Zoo, Inc., et al.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Warren E. Mouledoux, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Louis M. Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., Maureen J. Feran, Staff Atty., Gunther R. Michaelis, Asst. Atty. Gen., La. Dept. of Justice, New Orleans, for defendants-respondents; John J. Hainkel, Jr., New Orleans, David R. Poynter, Baton Rouge, of counsel.

Harry B. Kelleher, William R. Forrester, Jr., W.L. West of Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer & Matthews, New Orleans, for Bd. of Liquidation, City Debt, of the City of New Orleans, intervenor-appellant.


WILLIAMS, Judge.

Appellants have appealed from a decision of the Civil District Court denying plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction enjoining implementation of Act 352 of 1982 on the ground that it is unconstitutional.

Act 352 of the 1982 Regular Session of the Legislature seeks to replace the Board of Commissioners, appointed by the City Council, with a Board of Commissioners for the Park appointed by the Governor, and transfers administrative...

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