a per curiam reversal of Chappellev. Greater Baton Rouge Airport Dist., 329 So.2d 810 (1st Cir., 1976), which had held that statute requiring that Greater Baton Rouge Airport commissioners own property assessed in East Baton Rouge Parish was primafacie constitutional, and citing in support of the per curiam reversal the case of Turner v. Fouche, 396 U.S. 346, 90 S.Ct. 532, 24 L.Ed.2d 567 (1970), which held, in part, that requirement that members of board of education be freeholders amounted to invidious discrimination and was invalid
How later courts described this case
- a per curiam reversal of Chappellev. Greater Baton Rouge Airport Dist., 329 So.2d 810 (1st Cir., 1976), which had held that statute requiring that Greater Baton Rouge Airport commissioners own property assessed in East Baton Rouge Parish was primafacie constitutional, and citing in support of the per curiam reversal the case of Turner v. Fouche, 396 U.S. 346, 90 S.Ct. 532, 24 L.Ed.2d 567 (1970), which held, in part, that requirement that members of board of education be freeholders amounted to invidious discrimination and was invalid
- invalidating a law that required parish commission appointees to own property there
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Per Curiam.
The judgment is reversed. Turner v. Fouche, 396 U. S. 346, 361-364 (1970).