Legal Opinion
Forgette v. Vernon Parish Police Jury
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided March 5, 1986No. 84-1145PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LABORDE, Judge.
Ordinance Number 1 of 1984 of the Vernon Parish Police Jury regulates and taxes retailers of Vernon Parish with no fixed place of business. Mr. Charles Forgette, plaintiff-appellant, asserts that the entire ordinance fails to achieve any legitimate *239governmental purpose, and that this court should therefore declare the ordinance to be unconstitutional and unenforceable. The court below upheld all but three subsections of the ordinance. The Vernon Parish Police Jury did not appeal the judgment; therefore, the judgment is final as to the three subsections held unconstitutional. We…
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