PLAQUEMINES PARISH COMM'N COUNCIL v. DELTA DEV. CO.

No. C 2487.

458 So.2d 967 (1984)

PLAQUEMINES PARISH COMMISSION COUNCIL v. DELTA DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. McCollam, Marcel Garsaud, Jr., Andrew McCollam, III, Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Stuart & Duplantis, New Orleans, for relators Joyce Perez Gelpi, Chester P. Gelpi, Thomas Perez Eustis, Flora Ann Eustis, Geoffrey Edward Eustis, Nancy Kerr Eustis and Margaret Miller Eustis.

Daniel Lund, Harold B. Carter, Jr., Frank P. Accardo, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, New Orleans, for relator Delta Development Co., Inc.

Gene W. Lafitte, William R. Pitts, Anne E. Tate, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, for relators Betty Perez Carrere and Richard J. Carrere.

Peter J. Butler, Louis V. Lauricella, Butler & Heebe, New Orleans, for relators Leander H. Perez, Jr., and Aphra Perez.

J. Minos Simon, J. Minos Simon, Ltd., Lafayette, for relators Chalin O. Perez and Lynn Perkins Perez.

Ernest R. Eldred, Jerry F. Davis, Ernest R. Eldred, P.C., Baton Rouge, John R. Schupp, Broadhurst, Brook, Mangham, Hardy & Reed, New Orleans, for respondent Plaquemines Parish Com'n Council.

Jack M. Weiss and Mary Louise Strong, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for intervenors The Times-Picayune Pub. Co. and James O'Byrne.

Before GULOTTA, SCHOTT and WILLIAMS, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

We granted certiorari in order to consider the validity of a ruling of the trial court which denied relators' motion for a protective order prohibiting the dissemination of certain discovery materials. The threshold issue is whether freedom of expression as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution confers any right on respondent and an intervening newspaper publisher (hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to as "respondents...

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