LeBlanc Marine, L.L.C. v. State of Louisiana, Division of Administration, Office of Facility Planning and Control

Summary

The court held that a public entity may not restrict the statutory methods for proving a bidder's authority by adopting conflicting bid-instruction requirements. Because the State's instructions limited bidders to two of the three methods authorized by the Public Bid Law, those instructions were facially invalid and had to yield to the statute. The court reversed the court of appeal and dismissed LeBlanc Marine's petition with prejudice.