Bradley v. McKnight’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The fact that the'1972 resolution included a map specifically delineating the boundaries of the district indicates that the school board did not intend to define flexible boundaries. Once a boundary line of a political entity is fixed along a pre-existing natural or artificial boundary, and that pre-existing boundary subsequently changes, it is presumed that the boundary of the political entity runs as it did at the time the boundary was fixed. See Parish of Caddo v. Parish of Bossier, 164 La. 378 , 113 So. 882 (1927). Due to the failure of the school board to take any subsequent action to change the boundaries of School District No. 1, we must conclude the boundaries of the district are the same as defined by the 1972 resolution. LSA-R.S. 17:1371 gives school boards the complete discretion in fixing the boundaries of its districts. Though the trial court specifically found that the registrar acted in good faith, a conclusion in which we concur, nonetheless only the school board has authority to fix and refix the boundaries of its districts and we must conclude, therefore, that the action of the registrar in changing the registration of the challenged registrants from School Board District No. 10 to School Board District No. 1 was ultra vires.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 637 So. 2d 680 - Thompson v. Rapides Parish School Board