CITY OF BATON ROUGE v. ROSS

No. 94-KA-0695.

654 So.2d 1311 (1995)

CITY OF BATON ROUGE v. Shelton ROSS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 28, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Ieyoub, Atty. Gen., Carl James Jackson, City Atty., for applicant.

David William Price, Leon Jackson, for respondent.


CALOGERO, Chief Justice.*

Shelton Ross was charged by the City of Baton Rouge with violating a municipal ordinance which prohibits "drug traffic loitering." Ross filed a motion to quash alleging that the ordinance was unconstitutional and expressly preempted by legislative enactment. The City Court of Baton Rouge granted defendant's motion to quash, finding the ordinance unconstitutionally vague and overbroad, and invalid under the express...

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