United States Fifth Circuit

Where voiding lease rates substantially impairs the contract rights of the leaseholders, and the attempted invalidation is not reasonable or necessary, voiding the land leases pursuant to a state constitution would violate the US Constitution's Contract Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/03/2001
• Published 10/03/2001

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before REYNALDO G. GARZA, HIGGINBOTHAM and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Luther T. Munford (argued), James William Craig, Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, MS, Joseph Randolph Lipscomb, Columbus, MS, Christopher Raymond Green, University of Notre Dame Dept. of Philosophy, Notre Dame, IN, for Lipscomb., Thomas G. Wallace, Thomas G. Wallace & Associates, Columbus, MS, for Mayor, City of Columbus and City Council of the City of Columbus, Mississippi.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alan Mitchell Purdie, Dion J. Shanley (argued), Gore, Kilpatrick, Purdie, Metz & Adcock, Ridgeland, MS, Paul Roger Googe, Jr., Michael Cameron Moore, Atty. Gen., William Mack Cameron, Jackson, MS, for Defendants-Appellants.