BOLLINE v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

Civ. A. No. 90-5015, 91-525.

757 F.Supp. 715 (1991)

Police Officer Michael R. BOLLINE v. The CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. The POLICE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, et al., v. The CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

February 20, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale Charles Wilks, Dale C. Wilks, Frank Gerald Desalvo, David C. Rash, Law Office of Frank G. Desalvo, New Orleans, La., for Police Ass'n of New Orleans, Ronald J. Cannatella, Frank Vacarella and Michael Conn.

Elmer Grant Gibbons, III, Kathy L. Torregano, Jay Alan Ginsberg, City Atty.'s Office, and William David Aaron, Jr., New Orleans, La., for City of New Orleans.

Vernon Palmer, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, La., Sidney M. Bach, Gerald D. Wasserman, Bach & Wasserman, Metairie, La., for Michael R. Bolline.


ORDER AND REASONS

FELDMAN, District Judge.

Notwithstanding the assertion of grave federal constitutional issues in these consolidated cases, this Court must presently abstain from speaking to those issues because substantial state constitutional law issues are at the center of this controversy and resolution of the state law issues by the Louisiana state courts could moot or substantially alter the federal issues before this Court. The assertion of the federal...

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