ST MARY PARISH v. PARKER

No. 92-C-3305.

615 So.2d 327 (1993)

ST. MARY PARISH v. Mary Evelyn PARKER, State Treasurer, State of Louisiana; Edwin W. Edwards, Governor, State of Louisiana.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 12, 1993.


PER CURIAM.

If La. Const. art. VII, § 4(E) affords a remedy to a coastal parish to recover from the state one-tenth of the state's share of the royalties from oil and gas produced on federally owned lands from pools underlying both state and federal lands, then the governing body of the parish is the proper plaintiff to assert the parish's real and actual interest in the claim. Thus, St. Mary Parish has a right of action.

Whether the coastal parish is...

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