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NUMBER 96-CC-2005

CHARLES D. JONES

VERSUS

BOARD OF ETHICS FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT, STATE OF LOUISIANA

KNOLL, Justice.* This case is before us on a pre-hearing issue of whether the district court properly granted a temporary restraining order, enjoining the Board of Ethics for Elected Officials (Board of Ethics) from proceeding with a public hearing on conflicts of interest charges brought against Jones, a Louisiana state senator. Jones sought injunctive relief, contending that the pre-hearing procedure of the Board of Ethics was fraught with due process violations and that the procedures to be used by the Board of Ethics was similarly flawed. In an unpublished opinion, the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, granted the supervisory writ application of the Board of Ethics and vacated the temporary restraining order, finding that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to issue the temporary restraining order or to provide injunctive relief.1 We granted Jones' writ application and docketed the case for oral argument.2 For reasons

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Marcus, J. not on panel. Rule IV, Part 2,

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