JACKSON v. STATE OF LA.

No. 91-3683.

980 F.2d 1009 (1993)

Charles A. JACKSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE OF LOUISIANA, Defendant, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as Criminal Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 12, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Allen Usry, Freeman R. Matthews, Usry & Weeks, Matairie, La., for defendants-appellants.

Frank Gerald Desalvo, New Orleans, La., for Charles Jackson.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, WILLIAMS and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges.


POLITZ, Chief Judge:

This appeal poses a question about the allocation of law enforcement authority between the Police Department of the City of New Orleans and the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff. Charles C. Foti, Jr., individually and in his official capacity as Criminal Sheriff of Orleans Parish, and Patrick Callahan, individually and in his official capacity as one of Sheriff Foti's deputies, appeal an adverse judgment following a bench trial of the claims of...

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