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01/15/02 "See News Release 004 for any concurrences and/or dissents."

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 01-KA-0467

STATE OF LOUISIANA Versus JOHN W. WEAVER, ET AL. "MULLET CASES"

On Appeal From the Thirty-Fourth Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Bernard, Honorable Robert A. Buckley, Judge JOHNSON, Justice* The trial court found that LSA-R.S.56:333(F), which provides for a lifetime revocation of a commercial mullet fishing license or permit for violations of fishery laws and regulations, violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the constitution, as well as the constitutional provisions prohibiting excessive punishment. The state suspensively appealed that judgment to this court pursuant to La. Const. Art. V,

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