KIMBALL v. ALLSTATE INS. CO.

Nos. 97-CA-2885, 97-CA-2956.

712 So.2d 46 (1998)

Richelle A. Sims KIMBALL and Edward C. Capron, Jr. v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al. Gena DIMIAO v. Vicky HARDING, et al. Theresa Lancaster and Richard LANCASTER v. CITY OF ZACHARY, The City of Baton Rouge/Parish of East Baton Rouge, The State of Louisiana Through the Department of Transportation and Development.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 14, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude J. Naquin, Jr., Michael E. Ponder, Baton Rouge, for Applicant in No. 97-CA-2956.

Rick A. Caballero, Due, Caballero, Perry, Price & Guidry, Baton Rouge, Randolph A. Piedrahita, Shreveport, Richard P. Ieyoub, Atty. Gen., John C. Young, Baton Rouge, for Respondent in No. 97-CA-2956.

Randall J. Cashio, Michael E. Ponder, Frank J. Gremillion, Baton Rouge, for Applicant in No. 97-CA-2885.

Donald W. Price, Paul H. Due, Due, Caballero, Perry, Price & Guidry, Baton Rouge, Francis A. Rougeou, Jr., Donald R. Smith, Smith & Davis, Baton Rouge, John W. Perry, Jr., William J. Doran, Jr., Baton Rouge, Richard P. Ieyoub, Atty. Gen., Carlos Finalet, III, William F. Janney, Lane, Fertitta, Lane & Tullos, Baton Rouge, for Respondents in No. 97-CA-2885.

Larry Harding and Vicky Harding, Respondents, pro se, in No. 97-CA-2885.

Louis G. Gruntz, Jr., Jefferson, Charles L. Patin, Jr., Baton Rouge, for amici curiae Jefferson Parish and Louisiana Municipal Association in No. 97-CA-2885.


KIMBALL, Justice.*

In two separate civil cases filed in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court, a trial judge declared La. R.S. 13:5105(C) to be a local or special law in violation of La. Const. Art. III, § 12(A), and declared La. R.S. 13:5105(D) to be an unconstitutional delegation of the legislative authority to political subdivisions in violation of La. Const. Art. XII, § 10(C). Additionally, in one of the cases, the trial...

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