Case ID: so2d_244/html/0608-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SUMMERS, Justice,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

257 La. 853
    Herman A. PLESSALA v. ST. MARY PARISH DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE et al.
    No. 50931.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Oct. 19, 1970.
   In re: Merval J. Landry applying for writs of certiorari or review to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, 244 So.2d 298.

Writs refused. This Court will not exercise its supervisory jurisdiction when, due to the element of time, any judgment which might be rendered by it could not become effective to afford Relator the relief sought.

SUMMERS, Justice,

dissents from the refusal to grant writs. The mandate of Article VIII, Section 12 of the Constitution requiring that “The Legislature shall provide by law for the trial and determination of contested elections of all public officers * * * ” is not satisfied by La.R.S. 18:362, for it is impracticable within the time that statute provides to obtain review of any decision. When the Constitution provides that the Legislature shall provide for “trial” it clearly contemplates .review in the ordinary process of any determination by a court of original jurisdiction.