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TWENTY-FIRST JUD. DIST. COURT v. STATE

No. CA 89 1937.

563 So.2d 1185 (1990)

TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT; Kenneth J. Fogg; Bruce C. Bennett; Robert H. Morrison, III; Leon Ford, III; Edward B. Dufreche; Joseph E. Anzalone, Jr.; Judges of the Twenty-First Judicial District Court; and Residents of the Twenty-First Judicial District v. STATE of Louisiana, Through the Honorable William GUSTE, Attorney General; Honorable "Buddy" Roemer, as Governor and Chief Executive Officer of The State of Louisiana; Honorable Jimmy Dimos as Speaker of the House of Representatives and Presiding Officer of that Body; Honorable Allan Bares as President of the Senate and Presiding Officer of That Body; Tangipahoa Parish Council, Gordon Burgess as President; R.D. Watson; Dewayne Grace; Varry Paul Francois; Carlo S. Bruno; H.G. "Buddy" Ridgel; Erwin H. Jenkins; William Fleet; Charles "Buddy" Rogers; Wallace "Sonny" Wells; and Troy Davis, in Their Capacity as Tangipahoa Parish Council Members.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

May 30, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom McFerrin, Greensburg, for Judges of 21st JDC.

Ron S. Macaluso, Hammond, for City Court of Hammond.

William J. Doran, Baton Rouge, for Police Jury Ass'n.

Charles J. Yeager, Baton Rouge, for Atty. Gen. and Governor.

Dickie Patterson, Hammond, for Tangipahoa Parish Council.

Timothy F. Averill, New Orleans, for Supreme Court of La.

Before EDWARDS, LANIER and FOIL, JJ.

LANIER, Judge.

This action is a suit by the 21st Judicial District Court (21st JDC) against the State of Louisiana, the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Tangipahoa Parish Council and its President, the Judicial Budgetary Control Board and the Louisiana Supreme Court. The 21st JDC seeks (1) a declaratory judgment that the statutes which require local governments (the Tangipahoa Parish Council) to fund part of the...

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