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CIVIL SERVICE COM'N OF NEW ORLEANS v. GUSTE

No. 82-C-2611.

428 So.2d 457 (1983)

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF the CITY OF NEW ORLEANS v. William J. GUSTE, Jr., Attorney General for the State of Louisiana.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 23, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Kendall L. Vick, Evelyn T. Brooks, Asst. Attys. Gen., for defendant-appellant.

Ralph D. Dwyer, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

CALOGERO, Justice.

In this case, we have to decide whether constitutionally the Louisiana Legislature may require the Civil Service Commission of the City of New Orleans to establish rules for the payment of witness fees to all off-duty law enforcement officers in the state who are required to be present as witnesses in criminal cases being tried in the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. We determine that the Legislature may not do so. La.R.S. 15:255...

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