Meiners v. St. Tammany Fire Protection District 4 Board of Commissioners

|tI am confounded by the majority opinion and cannot reconcile it with my understanding of the law. It is true that in Albert v. Parish of Rapides, 256 La. 566, 237 So.2d 380 (La.1970), the supreme court held that the district court lacked jurisdiction to review a decision of the Rapides Parish Fire Civil Service Board pursuant to La. R.S. 33:2561. The court found that the district court could not hear the appeal because such an appeal is not included in the specific categories designated in Article 7, Section 36 of the Constitution of 1921. However, that case was overruled by Bowen v. Doyal,…