Bourgeois v. Moreau

REDMANN, Judge.

All seven Councilmen of the City of New Orleans were elected in 1970 for four-year terms beginning the first Monday in May 1970 and ending the first Monday in April 1974. Because the 1974 election was enjoined by United States Court decrees (based on the U.S. Attorney General’s disapproval of the Council’s ordinance of reapportionment of the City’s five councilmanic districts after the 1970 census), all councilmen have continued to serve under the holdover provision of La. Const. (1921) art. 19, § 6. The holdover councilman from District A (as constituted by reapportionment…