[StBernard] Appeal Court won't send candidate residency challenge back to St. Bernard Parish court

[Westley Annis]

Appeal Court won't send candidate residency challenge back to St. Bernard
Parish court 
Published: Friday, July 23, 2010, 6:15 PM     Updated: Friday, July 23,
2010, 6:18 PM
 The Times-Picayune 
 
The state 4th Circuit Court of Appeal refused Friday to send a St. Bernard
Parish candidate residency issue back to district court.

The appeal court affirmed ad hoc Judge Jerome Winsberg's decision Tuesday to
dismiss a challenge to the candidacy of Jeanne Nunez Juneau for the 4th
Circuit's St. Bernard Parish-based seat. Juneau and Chalmette lawyer Daniel
Dysart are vying for the seat Oct. 2. 

In dismissing the suit challenging Juneau's St. Bernard Parish residency,
Winsberg agreed with Juneau's attorneys that in addition to Juneau the suit
should have named the secretary of state -- not the St. Bernard clerk of
court -- as a defendant. 

The suit was brought by St. Bernard Parish residents Judith Scaglione and
Raymond Doran Jr. They said Juneau both had a homestead exemption and was
registered to vote in St. Tammany Parish through 2009, leaving her short of
the requirement that she live in in St. Bernard for at least one year before
the election.

Juneau's attorney, Leonard Levenson, said she moved into a trailer on
Delacroix Island in St. Bernard in June 2009 and later moved into a trailer
outside a house she is renovating in Chalmette.

Paul Tabary, Scaglione and Doran's attorney, was not available for comment
Friday. Scaglione and Doran have 48 hours to appeal the 4th Circuit's ruling
to the state Supreme Court.