Bolline v. City of New Orleans

ORDER AND REASONS

FELDMAN, District Judge.

Notwithstanding the assertion of grave federal constitutional issues in these consolidated cases, this Court must presently abstain from speaking to those issues because substantial state constitutional law issues are at the center of this controversy and resolution of the state law issues by the Louisiana state courts could moot or substantially alter the federal issues before this Court. The assertion of the federal power should await the effort of the state courts to resolve the state issues which drive and might resolve this dispute.

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