UTNO v. STATE BD. OF ELEMEN. AND SEC. EDUC.

No. 2007 CA 0031.

985 So.2d 184 (2008)

UNITED TEACHERS OF NEW ORLEANS, Tammy L. Davis, Wanda C. Gaudet, and Valerie M. Prier v. STATE BOARD OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, State Department of Education, Recovery School District, and The Orleans Parish School Board.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

March 26, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Samuel, William E. Rittenberg, Rittenberg, Samuel & Phillips, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA and David J. Strom, Teresa J., Idris, Samuel J. Lieberman, American Federation of Teachers Legal Department, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiffs-Appellants United Teachers of New Orleans, Tammy L. Davis, Wanda C. Gaudet, and Valerie M. Prier.

Michael H. Rubin, M. Brent Hicks, Eboni Townsend, McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC, Baton Rouge, LA and Uma M. Subramanian, Assistant Attorney General Louisiana, Department of Justice Baton, Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellees State of Louisiana, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Louisiana Department of Education, and the Recovery School District.

Keith M. Pyburn, Scott D. Schneider, Raul V. Esquivel III, Fisher & Phillips LLP., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellee The Orleans Parish School Board.

Jonathan C. Augustine, Terrel J. Broussard, Montgomery, Harnett, Brown, Read, Hammond, & Mintz, LLP, Baton Rouge, LA, for Amicus Curiae Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and The Rainbow-PUSH Coalition.

Before PARRO, KUHN, and DOWNING, JJ.


PARRO, J.

Plaintiffs appeal the judgment of the trial court sustaining the defendants' peremptory exception pleading the objection of no cause of action and dismissing their claims against the defendants, with prejudice.1 For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

This matter involves a constitutional challenge to Act 35 of the First Extraordinary Session of 2005 (Act 35), which...

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