(1970)). Therefore, permitting discovery on Plaintiffs’ equal protection claims would prove futile as it would not serve to defeat summary judgment. Accordingly, Plaintiffs’ equal protection claims are dismissed with prejudice. d. Plaintiffs’ Negotiorum Gestio Claim Plaintiffs seek additional discovery on their negotiorum gestio claim. Specifically, Plaintiffs argue that “[o]ne key element determining the.extent of plaintiffs’ property interest may be the length of time the City was unaware of Monumental Task Committee’s volunteer efforts.” Once again, the Court finds that additional discovery on this claim would be futile. The Fifth Circuit’s opinion made clear that Plaintiffs failed to present a prima facie case in support of their negoti-orum gestio claim. Chao, 678 Fed.Appx. at 252 (<HOLDING>). Further, the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court
holding party must support argument with legal authority holding estoppel claim could not lie in tort where the facts that support the claim could not support a claim for fraud or misrepresentation holding that a claim is entirely without color when it lacks any legal or factual basis conversely a claim is colorable when it has some legal and factual support considered in light of the reasonable beliefs of the individual making the claim holding that plaintiffappellants negotiorum gestio claim wholly lacked legal viability or support holding that a litigant must support an argument with legal authority