NEW ORLEANS FIREFIGHTERS v. NEW ORLEANS

No. 91-CA-0969.

590 So.2d 1172 (1991)

NEW ORLEANS FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL 632, AFL-CIO and its President William J. Sanchez. v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS consolidated with The POLICE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, et al. v. The CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, a Louisiana Municipality.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 2, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Aaron, Jr., City Atty., Cheryl M. Gaines, Asst. City Atty., Elmer G. Gibbons, Kathy Lee Terregano, Brett J. Prendergast, Deputy City Attys., for appellants.

Louis L. Robein, Jr., Gilbert R. Buras, Jr., Robert H. Urann, Gardner, Robein & Urann, Nancy Picard, Metairie, Frank G. DeSalvo, David Rash, Dale Charles Wilks, New Orleans, Sidney M. Bach, Gerald Wasserman, Bach and Wasserman, Metairie, Vernon V. Palmer, New Orleans, for appellee.


LEMMON, Justice.

This is a direct appeal under La.Const. art. V, § 5(D) from a judgment of the district court declaring unconstitutional New Orleans Municipal Ordinance 14,268, which requires that all City employees be domiciled in Orleans Parish within a certain period following the effective date of the ordinance. The principal issue raised by this appeal is whether the power to impose domicile requirements on municipal employees is vested in the municipal...

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