Legal Opinion
Petition of Sewerage & Water Bd. of New Orleans
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 18, 1971No. 50887PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TATE, Justice.
The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans appeals a District Court judgment declaring invalid certain provisions of the state constitution. As authorized by these provisions, the Board proposed a drainage project. By these proceedings, the owners of the lands affected oppose such project.
The essential issues of this appeal concern : I. Do the state constitutional provisions, as applied, offend Eqttal Protection guai-antees of the federal constitution ? ; and, II. Are the state provisions impermissibly vague in describing the lands affected (or, alternatively, do they exclude…
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3Cited by9 opinions
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