Case ID: so2d_232/html/0516-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "FOURNET, C. J., and McCALEB and HAMLIN, JJ.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

255 La. 791
    John L. SWOPE et al. v. ST. MARY PARISH SCHOOL BOARD.
    No. 50450.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    March 30, 1970.
   In re: John L. Swope, et al. applying for writs of certiorari and mandamus.

Writ granted.

FOURNET, C. J., McCALEB and HAMLIN, JJ., are of the opinion that the application should be denied for the reasons hereto attached.

FOURNET, C. J., and McCALEB and HAMLIN, JJ.,

dissenting.

This Court is without jurisdiction to grant this application for the reason that the litigation has been removed to the federal court and that court, whether rightly or wrongly, has upheld its jurisdiction. Should this Court order the district judge to proceed in the matter, it would place the judge in an untenable, in fact impossible, position in view of the orders of the federal judge. Since the federal court has seized jurisdiction of the case, the correctness of the removal order can only be litigated in a federal tribunal. We cannot conceive how any order this Court might render could effectuate an ouster of the federal jurisdiction. To reason otherwise is to create an insurmountable conflict between state and federal jurisdiction contrary to the letter and spirit of Title 28, U.S.C.A. Section 1446 (e).