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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE # 26 FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA The Opinions handed down on the 8th day of April, 2008, are as follows:

BY CALOGERO, C.J.: 2007-C -1890 THE NEWMAN MARCHIVE PARTNERSHIP, INC. v. CITY OF SHREVEPORT (Parish of Caddo) The Judgment of the Court of Appeal is reversed. The peremptory writ of mandamus is dissolved, and the Plaintiff's petition is dismissed. REVERSED; WRIT OF MANDAMUS DISSOLVED; PETITION DISMISSED.

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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA No. 07-C-1890 THE NEWMAN MARCHIVE PARTNERSHIP, INC., VERSUS CITY OF SHREVEPORT ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, SECOND CIRCUIT, PARISH OF CADDO CALOGERO, Chief Justice We granted certiorari in this case to decide whether the judicial branch may, through a writ of mandamus, compel a political subdivision of the state to pay a judgment rendered against it when that subdivision has appropriated funds to an account established to pay claims and judgments against the subdivision, but not for the payment of that specific judgment. Because we hold that LSA

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