[StBernard] Supreme Court denies request to reverse St. Bernard Parish candidate residency ruling

[Westley Annis]

Gee, I thought all the trailers had to be removed a loooong time ago.
<smirk>

JY



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	Supreme Court denies request to reverse St. Bernard Parish candidate
	residency ruling
	Published: Monday, August 09, 2010, 3:37 PM     Updated: Monday,
August 09,
	2010, 3:39 PM
	 Bob Warren, The Times-Picayune
	
	There will be an election for the St. Bernard Parish-based seat on
the state
	4th Circuit Court of Appeal on Oct. 2, after all.
	
	The state Supreme Court on Monday denied a writ seeking to reverse
two lower
	court rulings that paved the way for candidate Jeanne Nunez Juneau
to join
	Chalmette attorney Daniel Dysart in the race for the judgeship. The
Supreme
	Court's denial ends a weeks-long legal drama in which Juneau's
candidacy was
	challenged by two St. Bernard Parish residents who claimed Juneau
had not
	properly established domicile in St. Bernard Parish.
	
	"What it means is my client's a candidate,'' Juneau's attorney,
Leonard
	Levenson, said Monday.
	
	St. Bernard Parish residents Judith Scaglione and Raymond Doran Jr.
sued to
	challenge Juneau's candidacy, pointing out that Juneau 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 St. Bernard
Parish for
	at least one year before the election.
	
	Levenson said Juneau moved into a trailer on a lot in Delacroix
owned by her
	cousin in June 2009, and later moved the trailer to a Chalmette home
she is
	renovating.
	
	Ad hoc Judge Jerome Winsberg initially dismissed the suit because it
named
	the St. Bernard Parish Clerk of Court as a defendant instead of the
	Secretary of State. The dismissal was upheld by the 4th Circuit, but
	overturned by the state Supreme Court. Then, after a trial, Winsberg
ruled
	that Juneau had properly established domicile in St. Bernard Parish.
	
	Paul Tabary, the attorney for Scaglione and Doran, appealed
Winsberg's
	ruling to the 4th Circuit. When the appeal court upheld the ruling,
Tabary
	filed the writ to the Supreme Court.
	
	"This is the end of the line,'' Tabary said Monday of the Supreme
Court's
	denial.
	
	
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