Opinion

Helms v. Picard

  • 165 F.3d 311
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 381
Court
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Filed
Jan 13, 1999
Status
Published
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 44.6%

The opinion

165 F.3d 311

Mary L. HELMS, individually and as next friend of Amy T.

Helms; Amy T. Helms, a minor; Marie L.

Schneider, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-

Appellees-Appellees,

v.

Cecil J. PICARD, Louisiana Superintendent of Public

Education; Kenneth Duncan, Louisiana State Treasurer;

Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education;

Jefferson Parish School Board System; Elton Lagasse,

Superintendent of the Jefferson Parish School System;

Laurie E. Rolling, President and member of the Jefferson

Parish School Board; Libby Moran, Vice President and member

of the Jefferson Parish School Board; Robert Wolfe, member

of the Jefferson Parish School Board; Barry Bordelon,

member of the Jefferson Parish School Board; O.H. Guidry,

member of the Jefferson Parish School Board; Cedric Floyd,

member of the Jefferson Parish School Board; Polly Thomas,

member of the Jefferson Parish School Board; Gene Katsanis,

member of the Jefferson Parish School Board; Martin Marino,

member of the Jefferson Parish School Board,

Defendants-Appellees-Cross- Appellants,

and

Richard W. Riley, Secretary of the United States Department

of Education; United States Department of

Education, Defendants-Appellees,

and

Special Education Services Corporation, Defendant-Appellant,

and

Guy Mitchell; Jan Mitchell; Claire Friedrichs, Eddie

Greer, Colleen Greer, Dennis Thornton, Darlene

Thornton, Intervenor

Defendants-Appellees-Cross- Appellants.

No. 97-30231.

United States Court of Appeals,

Fifth Circuit.

Jan. 13, 1999.

Lee Boothby, Boothby & Yingst, Washington, DC, for Mary and Amy Helms and Marie Schneider.

Patricia Ann Dean, Andrew Tanner Karron, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, William Thomas D'Zurilla, Gordon, Arata, McCollam & Duplantis, New Orleans, LA, for Guy and Jan Mitchell, Claire Friedrichs, Eddie and Colleen Greer and Dennis and Darlene Thornton.

Howard S. Scher, Drake Stephen Cutini, Matthew Miles Collette, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for Richard Riley and U.S. Dept. of Educ.

Jack A. Grant, Andree Hunter Greenleaf, Grant & Barrow, Gretna, LA, for Lagasse, Rolling, Moran, Wolfe, Bordelon, Guidry, Floyd, Thomas, Katsanis, Marino and Jefferson Parish Sch. Bd. System.

David Glen Sanders, Asst. Atty. Gen., Division of Litigation, Baton Rouge, LA, for Picard, Duncan and Louisiana State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary Educ.

Marshall Beil, Catherine A. Rogers, Ross & Hardies, New York City, for National Committee for Public Educ. and Religious Liberty, Amicus Curiae.

Marjorie Ruth Esman, New Orleans, LA, Kenneth M. Dreifach, Morrison & Foerster, New York City, for The American Civil Liberties Union and Anti-Defamation League, Amicus Curiae.

Thomas A. Rayer, Sr., Denechaud & Denechaud, New Orleans, LA, for Special Educ. Services Corp.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Marcel Livaudais, Jr., Judge.

Before DUHE, BENAVIDES and STEWART, Circuit Judges. 1

ON PETITIONS FOR REHEARING AND SUGGESTIONS FOR REHEARING EN BANC

(Opinion 8/17/98, 5 Cir., 97-30231,

151 F.3d 347 )

PER CURIAM:

1

The Petitions for Rehearing are DENIED and the court having been polled at the request of one of the members of the court and a majority of the judges who are in regular active service not having voted in favor, (Fed. R.App. P and 5th Cir. R. 35) the Suggestions for Rehearing En Banc are also DENIED.

2

For clarity, we amend that part of the last sentence of the panel opinion following the number (2) to read as follows:

3

"... (2) we REVERSE the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants and RENDER judgment in favor of Plaintiffs declaring that the Federal instructional materials program, 20 U.S.C. §§ 7301-7373 , and its Louisiana counterpart, La.Rev.Stat.Ann. §§ 17:351-52, are unconstitutional as applied in Jefferson Parish, except as applied for the acquisition of textbooks which use is not challenged by this litigation; and (3)...."

1

Judges Wiener and Dennis did not participate in the consideration of the suggestion for rehearing en banc

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