Case ID: so2d_290/html/0898-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BARHAM, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Anthony J. ROY, Jr. v. The Honorable Edwin W. EDWARDS, Governor, et al. W. Davis COTTON et al. v. LOUISIANA BOARD OF REGENTS et al.
    No. 54453.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    March 8, 1974.
   In re: Edwin W. Edwards, Wade O. Martin, Jr., Louis Michot, State Board of Education, La. Board of Regents, State Board of Education, the La. Coordinating Council for Higher Education and the Individual Members thereof, applying for writs of Certiorari, Prohibition and Mandamus.

Writ granted.

BARHAM, J.,

dissents from the grant. Ordinarily, in fact almost without exception, I am of the opinion a member of this Court should not dissent from granting of a writ. I depart here for the first time because the majority has mechanistically and with literality applied a procedural rule, R.S. 13:4431, to grant a writ to determine if a suspensive appeal must be granted each time a legislative act is declared unconstitutional even if the act’s implementation could make null and void constitutional bodies and disrupt government function.