Deshotels v. State Professional Improvement Committee ex rel. Department of Education

ALFORD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a dismissal of a suit for declaratory judgment and for the recovery of monetary compensation in the *1200form of increased salary increments. Appellants seek to have their rights determined under the Louisiana Educational Employees Professional Improvement Program, LSA R.S. 17:3601, et seq.

Trial was held on April 29, 1980, in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge. At the beginning of trial, counsel for the defendants made an oral motion to dismiss the suit on the grounds that all proper parties had not been joined and that…