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FRANCIS v. MORIAL

No. 84-CA-0159.

455 So.2d 1168 (1984)

Norman C. FRANCIS, et al v. Ernest N. MORIAL, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 10, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mack E. Barham, John Whitney, Thomas G. Gruenert, Barham & Churchill, George W. Reese, Charles H. White, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees.

H.A. Vondenstein, Parish Atty., James S. Arceneaux, Asst. Parish Atty., George Giacobbe, Kenner, Harry J. Morel, Jr., Dist. Atty., Steve Griffith, Asst. Dist. Atty., William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Kendall L. Vick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Melissa F. Keegan, Staff Atty., New Orleans, for defendant-appellants.

Salvador Anzelmo, City Atty., Thomas W. Milliner, Deputy City Atty., for Defendant-Appellees.

DENNIS, Justice.

We are called upon to decide whether an act of the legislature altering the procedure for selecting members of a home rule municipality's administrative board should be upheld as necessary to prevent abridgement of a reasonable exercise of the state's police power or stricken as an interference with local deployment of home rule charter powers and functions prohibited by the state constitution. A suit was brought by the present members of the municipal...

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