A state court in La. issued an injunction to block a PSC decision...
A state court in La. issued an injunction to block a PSC decision to remove newspaper publishers from the list of business entities exempt from the state’s 2001 no-call telemarketing law. The La. Press Assn. and the Denham Springs…
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Publishing Co. filed suit in La. Dist. Court, Baton Rouge, seeking reversal of the PSC’s April decision. Plaintiffs contend the PSC violated their right to due process because it failed to provide notice and opportunity to be heard on the change in the no-call exemption affecting newspaper publishers. Dist. Court Judge Curtis Calloway agreed to the request for an injunction and set a May 30 date for a preliminary hearing. The PSC , which administers the no-call list, originally had included newspapers on the exemption list because of their relationship to political activity but later reconsidered that decision and reversed it.