Melancon v. State Board of Education

SANDERS, Justice.

The question posed by this appeal is whether the Louisiana State Board of Education can establish an “education center” of the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Iberia Parish, without special legislative authorization.

In 1965, the State Board of Education .adopted a iqsolut’on establishing the Education Center of the University of Southwestern Louisiana near New Iberia in Iberia Parish. On the petition of eleven interested taxpayers of Lafayette Parish, where the University is located, the district court held the resolution violated Article IV, Section 14, of the…