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CITY OF NEW ORLEANS v. STATE

No. 82-CA-2716.

426 So.2d 1318 (1983)

The CITY OF NEW ORLEANS and the Honorable Ernest N. Morial, Mayor of the City of New Orleans v. The STATE of Louisiana.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 11, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Warren E. Mouledoux, 1st Asst. Atty. Gen., Ronald C. Davis, Lois C. Davis, Asst. Attys. Gen., Louisiana Dept. of Justice, for defendant-appellant.

Salvador Anzelmo, City Atty., Douglas P. Wilson, Chief Deputy City Atty., Galen S. Brown, Deputy City Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

William J. Doran, Jr., and William T. Kivett, Baton Rouge, for Police Jury Association of La., intervenor-appellee.

R. Gordon Kean, Jr., Charles S. McCowan, Jr., Baton Rouge, Lydia Taylor, Shreveport, T. Allen Usry, New Orleans, for Mun. Ass'n, intervenor-appellee.

WATSON, Justice.

The City of New Orleans brought this suit contending that various state statutes which mandate payments by the City for state services violate Art. 6, § 6 of the 1974 Constitution of Louisiana which provides:

"The legislature shall enact no law the effect of which changes or affects the structure and organization or the particular distribution and redistribution of the powers and functions of any local governmental subdivision which...

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