UNITED HEALTHCARE INSURANCE CO., Plaintiff-Intervenor Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant,
v.
Angele DAVIS, Commissioner, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee,
v.
Vantage Health Plan, Inc.; Preston Taylor; Gloria Taylor; Leon Price; Sherra Fertitta Hicks, Intervenor Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees,
v.
Humana Insurance Company; Humana Health Benefit Plan of Louisiana, Inc., Intervenor Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.
Humana Insurance Company; Humana Health Benefit Plan of Louisiana, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants,
v.
Angele Davis; Tommy D. Teague, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 31, 2010.
March 31, 2010.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Harry Alston Johnson, III, Michael D. Hunt, Kimberly R. LaHaye, Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, Paula Denney, Scott M. McElhaney (argued), Jackson Walker, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for United Healthcare Ins. Co.
Sheri Marcus Morris (argued), Carlton Jones, III, Roedel, Parsons, Koch, Blache, Balhoff & McCollister, A.L.C., Baton Rouge, LA, for Angele Davis, Tommy D. Teague.
V. Thomas Clark, Jr., Robert Lewis Rieger, Jr., William David Shea, Mary Edwards Taylor, Adams & Reese, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, Louis C. LaCour, Jr. (argued), Adams & Reese, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Humana Ins. Co., Humana Health Ben. Plan of La., Inc.
Michael Reese Davis, Sr. (argued), Hymel Davis & Petersen, L.L.C., Sonia A. Mallett, Middleberg, Riddle & Gianna, Baton Rouge, LA, for Vantage Health Plan, Inc.
James Rodney Chastain, Jr. (argued), Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, Robert Joseph Bozeman, Monroe, LA, for Preston Taylor, Gloria Taylor, Sherra Fertitta Hicks, Leon Price.
Before JOLLY and DENNIS, Circuit Judges, and JORDAN, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents questions relating to the dormant Commerce Clause and the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution. The district court granted a permanent injunction enjoining the implementation of La. R.S. § 42:802.1 ("Act 479" or "the Act"), on the basis that it violated the dormant Commerce Clause, because it effectively favored Louisiana insurance companies in bidding...
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