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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

No. 97-C-0244

RAYMOND PALMER, ET AL versus LOUISIANA FORESTRY COMMISSION and LOUISIANA TAX COMMISSION

*********************** ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT, PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE ***********************

Jeannette Theriot Knoll ASSOCIATE JUSTICE

Marcus, J., not on panel. Rule IV, Part 2, Sec. 3.

This case arose from a complaint by plaintiff Raymond Palmer, and police juries from the parishes of Grant, Ouachita, Sabine, Vernon, and the Police Jury Association of Louisiana that the reclassification of a forest product termed "chip and saw" resulted in an illegal loss of revenues to the plaintiff parishes. By law, the defendants, the Louisiana Forestry Commission and the Louisiana Tax Commission are required to meet annually to determine the market values of certain natural resources so that a severance tax may be imposed: 2

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