Giepert v. Wingerter

CIACCIO, Judge.

Defendant, Judge Lorain F. Wingerter, appeals suspensively from a judgment of the district court which disqualified him from running for re-election to the position of judge of the Second City Court for the City of New Orleans and ordered that his name be removed from the list of candidates. We reverse that judgment.

The facts of this case are not in dispute. We adopt the facts as found by the disrict court which are as follows:

Judge Wingerter was first elected to the position in 1948, and has served continuously since that time. He has been unopposed for re-election since 1952,…