Stockstill v. Rousselle

| iCIACCIO, Judge.

This consolidated appeal arises from three separate suits filed on August 4, 1994 in Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Plaquemines, challenging the candidacy of three incumbent members of the Plaquemines Parish Council who have qualified to run for re-election in the primary election to be held on October 1, 1994. Following a consolidated trial, the trial judge rendered judgment in favor of the defendants. The plaintiffs now appeal.

On May 16, 1994, pursuant to a petition of 15% of Plaquemines Parish registered voters,1 the Parish Council adopted…