Benelli v. City of New Orleans

DENNIS, Justice.

The threshold question is whether the court of appeal properly invoked this court’s appellate jurisdiction by transferring this civil appeal to us.

Plaintiffs, New Orleans police officers, sued for an injunction prohibiting the City of New Orleans from enforcing an executive order or regulation promulgated by the superintendent of police requiring moonlighting police officers to obtain signed agreements from their secondary employers to hold the city harmless from worker’s compensation and tort liability arising from the officers’ secondary jobs, and to provide legal defense…