PRATOR v. CADDO PARISH

No. 2004-C-0794.

888 So.2d 812 (2004)

Steve PRATOR, Sheriff of Caddo Parish, Louisiana v. CADDO PARISH.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 1, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiener, Weiss & Madison, APC, John M. Madison, Jr., Susie Morgan, Michael Allyn Stroud, Mark Lane Hornsby, Shreveport, Counsel for Applicant.

Pugh, Pugh & Pugh, Robert G. Pugh, Shreveport, Charles Carr Grubb, Parish Attorney, Alex James Washington, Jr., Assistant Parish Attorney, Counsel for Respondent.

Usry, Weeks & Matthews, Thomas Allen Usry, John Franklin Weeks, II, New Orleans, Counsel for Amicus Curiae Louisiana Sheriffs' Association.

Dannie P. Garrett, III, Baton Rouge, Roland John Dartez, and William J. Doran, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Amicus Curiae Police Jury Association of Louisiana, Inc.

Patrick Richmond Jackson, Counsel for Amici Curiae Bossier Parish Police Jury and Webster Parish Police Jury.


WEIMER, Justice.

This matter addresses a controversy between a parish government and a sheriff concerning the parish's claim to a credit for certain costs relative to the housing of out-of-parish inmates at the parish jail ("credit issue") and whether the parties' actions for declaratory judgments stated justiciable controversies.

We granted a writ in this matter to determine whether the court of appeal erred in finding a lack of justiciable controversies...

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