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JEFFERSON v. LEEHY

No. 31518-CA.

718 So.2d 655 (1998)

Honorable Larry D. JEFFERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Honorable Bernard Scott LEEHY and Honorable James Garland Smith, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

October 2, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daryl Blue, Monroe, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Snellings, Breard, Sartor, Inabnett, and Trascher, L.L.P. by Jon K. Guice, Monroe, for Defendant-Appellee Hon. Bernard Scott Leehy.

Carlton Parhms, for Defendant-Appellee Hon. James Garland Smith.

Before BROWN, CARAWAY and PEATROSS, JJ.

CARAWAY, Judge.

This suit, filed by the senior and presiding judge of the Monroe City Court, contests the authority of the remaining two judges of the court to elect by a majority vote an administrative judge to carry out the administrative rules adopted by the court. Finding that La. R.S. 13:1878 does not empower the presiding judge with unilateral authority to decide and administer the rules for the functioning of the court, we affirm, with one minor modification...

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