Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corp. v. City of Opelousas

GUIDRY, Judge.

Defendants, the City of Opelousas, May- or John W. Joseph, Aldermen Dale Peffer-korn, LeRoy Payne and Ceasar Veazie, Jr. (hereafter collectively referred to as City, appellants or defendants), along with inter-venor, Central Louisiana Electric Company, Inc. (CLECO), appeal a judgment of the district court granting plaintiff, Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation’s (SLEMCO), motion for summary judgment and denying defendants’ motion for summary judgment.

This suit arises as the result of an election called by the City to secure authority to grant a franchise to…