Scaglione v. Juneau

PER CURIAM. *

| |Writ granted. The district court’s ruling maintaining the peremptory exception of peremption is reversed, and the matter is remanded to the district court for further proceedings. The lower courts erred in finding that the objecting citizens were required to name in their petition within the time limitation period both the candidate and the Secretary of State in order to state a cause of action under La. R.S. 18:1401 and 18:1402. “A cause of action, when used in the context of the peremptory exception, is defined as the operative facts that give rise to the plaintiffs right to…