PHILLIPS v. ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BD.

No. 88-CA-1757.

541 So.2d 226 (1989)

Patricia PHILLIPS and Carrie Swanson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 14, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Samuel, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant Patricia Phillips and Carrie Swanson et al.

Polack, Rosenberg, Rittenberg & Endom, Franklin V. Endom, Jr., Robert M. Rosenberg, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee Orleans Parish School Bd.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and KLEES and WILLIAMS, JJ.


KLEES, Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether the district court properly denied plaintiffs' motion to maintain this action as a class action. The named plaintiffs are teachers of exceptional children in Orleans Parish who instituted this suit in 1978 to compel the school board to pay them and others similarly situated a ten percent salary supplement formerly mandated by La.R.S. 17:427. Although the statute was amended during the summer of 1977 to make the supplement...

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