INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO., INC. v. HILTON

No. 2007-C-0290.

966 So.2d 545 (2007)

INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY, INC. v. Sheriff William Earl HILTON, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 16, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Durio, McGoffin, Stagg & Ackermann, Steven Gerald Durio, Robert Louis Broussard, Lafayette, for applicant.

James C. Downs, District Attorney, Robert Lewis Bussey, Assistant District Attorney; Foley & Judell, Jerry R. Osborne, New Orleans, for respondent

John Paul LeBlanc, for amicus curiae, Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.

Shannan Sweeney Rieger, Charles S. McCowan, Jr., Baton Rouge, and M. Dwayne Johnson, for amicus curiae, Louisiana Chemical Association.

Dannie P. Garrett, III, Baton Rouge, for Police Jury Association of Louisiana.


KIMBALL, Justice.*

We granted certiorari in this matter to determine whether a pre-existing industrial area created under Article VI, § 18 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974 and La. R.S. 33:130.11 et seq. can be subject to inclusion and taxation by a newly created special service district providing services not enumerated in former La. R.S. 33:130.15 (repealed 1995 and re-enacted in La. R.S. 51:1202).1...

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