Legal Opinion
City of New Orleans v. Dukes
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 1976No. 74-775PublishedCited by 1,805 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Pm Curiam.
The question presented by this case is whether the provision of a New Orleans ordinance, as amended in 1972, that excepts from the ordinance’s prohibition against vendors’ selling of foodstuffs from pushcarts in the Vieux Carre, or French Quarter, “vendors who have continuously operated the same business within the Vieux Carre ... for eight or more years prior to January 1, 1972 . . .” denied appellee vendor equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Appellee operates a vending business from pushcarts throughout New Orleans but had carried on that business…
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