Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Calvin Clifford Fayard, Jr., Denham Springs, LA, Isabel B. Wingerter, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Samuel Issacharoff (argued), New York University School of Law, New York City, for State of LA.
Alan J. Yacoubian, Neal J. Favret, Rachael Patton Catalanotto, Johnson, Johnson, Barrios & Yacoubian, Judy Y. Barrasso, Susan M. Rogge, H. Minor Pipes, III, Stephen L. Miles, Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman & Sarver, Ralph S. Hubbard, III, Seth Andrew Schmeeckle, Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, Richard Edward King, Matthew Joseph Lindsay, Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, Wayne J. Lee, Stephen G. Bullock, Mary Lue Dumestre, Andrea Leigh Fannin, Stone, Pigman, Walther & Wittmann, Maura Z. Pelleteri, Amy S. Malish, Krebs, Farley & Pelleteri, Gordon Paul Serou, Jr., Law Offices of Gordon P. Serou, Jr., New Orleans, LA, Walter D. Willson, Wells, Marble & Hurst, Ridgeland, MS, Neil C. Abramson, Jacqueline M. Brettner, Harry A. Rosenberg, Phelps Dunbar, Patrick D. Derouen, Laurie L. Dearmond, Porteous, Hainkel & Johnson, Julia A. Dietz, Degan, Blanchard & Nash, Wendy Hickok Robinson, Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, Gerard E. Wimberly, Jr., Daniel T. Plunkett, McGlinchey Stafford, Ethan N. Penn, Musgrave, McLachlan & Penn, LLC, Edward J. Lilly, Crull, Castaing & Lilly, Deborah B. Rouen, Adams & Reese, John W. Waters, Jr., Bienvenu, Foster, Ryan & O'Bannon, LLC, Nancy Scott Degan, Paul Lee Peyronnin, Kent Andrew Lambert, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, Thomas R. Blum, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, LA, Richard Joseph Doren, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA, Daniel Wintrop Nelson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, DC, Richard L. Fenton (argued), Steven M. Levy, Alan S. Gilbert, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, Katherine B. Armstrong, Sheila L. Birnbaum, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City, Charles Louis Chassaignac, IV, Porteous, Hainkel & Johnson, John Powers Wolff, III, Christopher Keith Jones, Keogh, Cox & Wilson, Ltd., Anthony Joseph Rollo, Jr., McGlinchey Stafford, Marshall M. Redmon, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, LA, Walter D. Willson, Wells, Marble & Hurst, Ridgeland, MS, Thomas Hebert Huval, Huval, Veazey, Felder & Aertker, Covington, LA, John E. Unsworth, Jr., William Glenn Burns, Lauren E. Brisbi, Dominic J. Ovella, Sean Patrick Mount, Anne Elizabeth Medo, Daniel Michael Redmann, John Christopher Dippel, Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale, Lawrence J. Duplass, C. Michael Pfister, Kelly C. Bogart, Jaime Michale Cambre, Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois & Morton, Howard Bruce Kaplan, Bernard, Cassaissa, Elliott & Davis, John R. Walker, Allen & Gooch, Christopher Raymond Pennison, Jay M. Lonero, Larzelere, Picou, Wells, Simpson, Lonero, Metairie, LA, Anne D. LeJeune, McGlinchey, Stafford, Youngblood & Bendalin, Dallas, TX, Ben Louis Mayeaux, James L. Pate, Laborde & Neuner, Lafayette, LA, Levon G. Hovnatanian, Christopher Weldon Martin, Martin R. Sadler, Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom, Houston, TX, Stephen E. Goldman (argued), Wystan Michael Ackerman, Robinson & Cole, Hartford, CT, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, STEWART and ELROD, Circuit Judges.
