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PERSCHALL v. STATE

No. 96-CC-0322.

697 So.2d 240 (1997)

Clement F. PERSCHALL, Jr. v. The STATE of Louisiana.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

July 1, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyron David Picard, Lafayette, Domengeaux & Wright, Mark Edward Stipe, Picard & Stipe, Lafayette, Peter J. Butler, Jr., Peter J. Butler, Richard Gary Passler, New Orleans, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, Robert McDuff, New Orleans, for applicant.

Clement F. Perschall, Jr., Metairie, Walter I. Willard, Lemle & Kelleher, Ronald Earle Wilson, William Patrick Quigley, New Orleans, Jacqueline Carr, Slidell, Theodore M. Shaw, Charles Stephen Ralston, Elaine R. Jones, Norman, J. Chachkin, New York City, Victor A. Bolden, Brooklyn, NY, Jacqueline A. Berrier, for respondent.

KIMBALL, Justice.*

This declaratory judgment action challenges the validity of La. Acts 1992, No. 512 [hereinafter Act 512] under the Louisiana Constitution. Act 512 was adopted to resolve the issue in the matter of Chisom v. Edwards, a federal voting rights case that challenged the election of two of this court's seven justices from one district that includes Orleans Parish. The Chisom...

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