CLEMENT v. FOUR WINDS TRIBE-LOUISIANA

No. 05-652.

921 So.2d 193 (2005)

Dorothy CLEMENT, et al. v. FOUR WINDS TRIBE-LOUISIANA, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 22, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia W. Brown, McBride & Collier, Alexandria, Counsel for Defendant/Appellee: Four Winds Tribe-Louisiana Cherokee Confederacy, Inc.

Leslie R. Leavoy Jr., McBride & Collier, DeRidder, Counsel for Defendant/Appellee: Four Winds Tribe — Louisiana Cherokee Confederacy, Inc.

Kathryn Fowler Van Hoof, Van Hoof Law Firm, LeCompte, Nora J. Dodson, In Proper Person, Converse, Counsel for Plaintiffs/Appellants: Billy Sinor Darrell Bynog Cheryl Perkins Del Lavon Sweat Shirley Crowe Martha Alexander Joyce Laird Reeves Barbara Rodrigues Becky Gohr.

Court composed of JOHN D. SAUNDERS, OSWALD A. DECUIR, and GLENN B. GREMILLION, Judges.


DECUIR, Judge.

In this appeal, we are called upon to address the legitimacy of a corporate election of directors of the Four Winds Tribe-Louisiana Cherokee Confederacy, Inc. The action was initiated as a Petition for Quo Warranto and Writ of Injunction for the purpose of requiring the defendants to show by what authority they claimed to be members of the governing body of the tribe and enjoining them from acting on behalf of the tribe. After a trial on the merits...

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