Thomas v. Louisiana State Board of Health

SAMUEL, Judge.

In this matter relator, individually and on behalf of his minor children and his wife, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to have the court order the respondents to issue certain new birth certificates removing the race designation of Negro thereon (allegedly changed from white to Negro by the registrar) and changing the same to white. The petition further seeks to have LSA-R.S. 42:267, as amended, determined to be unconstitutional. The two respondents named in the petition are the Louisiana State Board of Health and the City of New Orleans, Health Department,…