Mayor-president Sharon Weston Broome, Lewis O. Unglesby, Lamont Cole, And M. E. Cormier v. Chris Rials And Norman Browning, Organizers Of The Petition To Incorporate St. George

Supreme Court of Louisiana
November 15, 2023
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
MAYOR-PRESIDENT SHARON WESTON
BROOME, LEWIS O. UNGLESBY,
LAMONT COLE, AND M. E. CORMIER
VS.
CHRIS RIALS AND NORMAN BROWNING,
ORGANIZERS OF THE PETITION TO
INCORPORATE ST. GEORGE
No. 2023-C-01108
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IN
RE: St. George Appellants - Electors - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Writ
Of Certiorari, Parish of East Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court Number(s)
C690041, Court of Appeal, First Circuit, Number(s) 2022 CA 1203;
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November 15, 2023
Writ application granted - see briefing notice and Order.
JTG
JLW
JDH
SJC
WJC
JBM
PDG
11/15/2023 "See News Release 049 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

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JEFFEFSON O, HUGHES III
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November 15.2023
2023-C-01 I 08 MAYOR-PRESIDENT SHARON WESTON BROOME,
ET AL. VS. CHRIS RIALS. ET AL.
NOTE: FOR BRIEFING PURPOSES WRIT GRANTED November 15,2023
MEMORANDUM TO COUNSEL IN CAPTIONED CASE:
Please be advised that the above-captioned matter will be set for oral argument on this
Court's next available docket. A copy of the official docket with the specific date and time
of oral argument will be mailed out.
Please note Section 8 of Rule VII of th e Rules of this Court provides that the anolicant
Sixlh Disrrict
or relator. as the case may be. must file their briefs en or before December 11,2023:
and the resnqndent on or before January 2,2024.
Oral argument will be waived if brief is untimely filed. Briefs submitted on legal sized paper
should be fastened at the top. All briefs should be backed with the customary "Blueback" or
other flexible material. In criminal proceedings, the court directs that counsel must file a
brief. Failure to do so may subject counsel to a penalty of contempt of Court.
It is further provided in Rule VII, Section 9 that briefs sent through the mail shall be deemed
timely filed if mailed on or before the due date. If the brief is received by mail on the first
legal day following the expiration of the delay, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that it
was timely filed. In all cases where the presumption does not apply, the timeliness of the
mailing shall be shown only by an official United States postmark or by official receipt or
certificate from the United States Postal Service, or bona fide commercial mail services such
as Federal E,xpress or United Parcel Service, made at the time of mailing which indicates the
date thereof. Any other date stamp, such as a private commercial mail meter stamp, or label
from an Automated Postal Center, shall not be used to establish timeliness.
Briefs forwarded by private delivery or courier service shall be deemed timely filed only if
received by the clerk on or before the last day ofthe delay for filing.
Re ards.
an Chan
Deputy Clerk
11/15/23

RC: RC
ccs: All Counsel
Hon. Martin E. Coady
Hon. J. Douglas "Doug" Welborn
Hon. Rodd Naquin, Clerk
19th Judicial District Court: C690041
Court of Appeal, First Circuit: 2022 CA 1203

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 2023-C-01108
MAYOR-PRESIDENT SHARON WESTON BROOME, LEWIS O.
UNGLESBY, LAMONT COLE, AND M. E. CORMIER
VERSUS
CHRIS RIALS AND NORMAN BROWNING, ORGANIZERS OF
THE PETITION TO INCORPORATE ST. GEORGE
On Writ of Certiorari and/or Rcvrcw
Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge, No. 690,041 ,
Court of Appeal, First Circuit, No. 2022 CA 1203.
And' whereas, the Court has this date, pursuant to Article 5, Section 5, of the
ordered that the writ of review issue; that the District Court and thc Court of
Appeal send up thc record in Duplicate of thc casc; and that counsel for all parties
be notified."
Now, thereforc, the said District Court and thc Court of Appeal is hereby
commanded, in the name of the State of Louisiana and of this Honorable Court, to
send up forthwith to this Court, in accordance with Supreme Court Rule 1, at thc
City of New Orleans, the record in duplicatc of thc abovc-entitled case.
Witncss thc Honorable Justices of the
Suprcme Court of the State of Louisiana, on
this 15(h day of November, in the year of our
Lord, Two Thousand Twenty-Three.
Veronica O. Koclanes
Clerk of Court
Dcputy Clcrk of Court
Constitution of Louisiana, madc and issued thc following ordcr, to wit- "It is