Court Opinion

ID: 9688718
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:01:22.41919+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:41.460272
License: Public Domain

HAWTHORNE, Justice
(concurring).
I am of the view that defendants’ plea of prematurity and their exceptions based up*174-on the fact that the plaintiffs failed to follow the procedural requirements set out in R.S. 23:841-23:849, commonly referred to as the “Little Norris-LaGuardia Act”, before seeking injunctive relief should be sustained.
In my dissenting opinion in Douglas Public Service Corp. v. Gaspard, 225 La. 972, 74 So.2d 182, I stated that I did not agree with the holding of the majority of this court that the procedural requirements of the statute were unconstitutional, and I fully set out there the reasons for my view. I am still of the same opinion. However, my view is a minority one, and, under the jurisprudence of this court as established in the Douglas case and in this case, the statutory provisions setting up these procedural requirements are unconstitutional. Therefore, since it would serve no purpose and would be a vain thing for me to continue to dissent, I subscribe to the majority holding only because this holding is now the law of this state in cases of this kind, with the hope that the majority will in time realize its error and reverse its position in the matter.