Morgan v. City of Shreveport

|! Since I find the Shreveport Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board (the “Board”) is an indispensable party to this controversy, I would set aside the ruling of the trial court and remand for joinder of the Board. La. C.C.P. art. 927(B).

A municipal fire and police civil service board is a political subdivision, distinct from the municipal government, with separate constitutional and statutory governance under the law. La. Const. art. X, § 16; La. R.S. 33:2471, et seq. The jurisprudence demonstrates controversies litigated directly between a municipality and its civil service board.…