Kane v. Louisiana Commission on Governmental Ethics

HAMLIN, Justice:

Defendants appeal from a judgment of the trial court which enjoined, restrained, and prohibited the Louisiana Commission on Governmental Ethics from conducting any further proceedings affecting plaintiff, John W. Kane, Jr. (a businessman operating Kane’s Office Supply), and decreed that all actions previously taken by the Louisiana Commission on Governmental Ethics against the plaintiff be vacated and set aside.

The trial court did not state in its judgment that it declared Act 110 of 1964, the Code of Governmental Ethics, unconstitutional in part; but, in its reasons for…