Hester v. Rizzo

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

JACK M. GORDON, District Judge.

This action arises out of a dispute between certain taxicab drivers and the New Orleans Aviation Board over the use of a “two-line” system employed at the New Orleans International Airport in an effort to supply efficient taxicab service to deplaning passengers at the airport. On behalf of a class of cab drivers which does not include cabs licensed by the City of Kenner, the named plaintiffs assert that the two-line system denies them the equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United…