LA. DEPT. OF AGR. AND FORESTRY v. SUMRALL

No. 97 CA 0288.

712 So.2d 678 (1998)

LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY v. Herbert SUMRALL, Director of Civil Service; The Department of Civil Service; The State Civil Service Commission; Richard Ieyoub, Attorney General of Louisiana; Earl Kolb, and Carolyn Dance.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

May 15, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David S. McFadden, C. James Gelpi, New Orleans, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Robert R. Boland, Jr., Baton Rouge, for Defendant-Appellee State Civil Service Commission.

Carolyn Dance, Baton Rouge, Defendant-Appellee, in pro. per.

Earl Kolb, Ringgold, Defendant—Appellee, in pro. per.

Before LOTTINGER, C.J., and SHORTESS and FOGG, JJ.


LOTTINGER, Chief Judge.

Succinctly, the issue before this court is whether La. Const. Art. X, Sec. 8(B) provides an exclusive listing of bases for civil service appeals based on discrimination.

The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (hereinafter the "Department of Agriculture") filed the instant petition for declaratory judgment. Therein, the petitioner alleged that Article X of the Louisiana Constitution established and empowered the Department...

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