| MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
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| 1. | Court reverses partial summary judgment for plaintiffs.
David Rabb v. Willis-Knighton Medical Center, 2024-CC-01432 (La. 02/19/2025) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
In this medical malpractice case plaintiffs moved for partial summary judgment against
defendants, Willis-Knighton Medical Center and Dr. Ana Costea. ... view full summary |
| WORKERS' COMPENSATION
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| 2. | Court remands for new trial after testimony was improperly excluded.
Mona LeBlanc v. Walmart Stores, Inc., 2024-C-01212 (La. 02/05/2025) [4 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
Plaintiff filed a claim for temporary and total disability benefits after a work accident at
Walmart in November 2010. The workers' compensation judge... view full summary |
| DOMESTIC RELATIONS
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| 3. | Court orders court of appeal to convert improper appeal of interlocutory custody order to writ application.
Kasey Lynn Roberie Fontenot v. Charles Nicholas Fontenot, 2025-OC-00048 (La. 02/25/2025) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
Plaintiff and defendant were married and then divorced. Both filed rules to establish custody
of their two young daughters. After a conference, the hearing officer issu... view full summary |
| CRIMINAL
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| 4. | Court orders evidentiary hearing on post-conviction claim of factual innocence.
State v. Kyle Alexander, 2024-KP-00670 (La. 02/05/2025) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
Defendant was convicted by two separate Assumption Parish juries of the second-degree
murder of two of his former high school classmates. Defendant later file... view full summary |
| 5. | Court vacates sentences and remands to properly consider sentencing factors.
State v. Justin Craighead, 2024-KK-01219 (La. 02/05/2025) [10 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
Defendant, a middle-aged husband and father with no prior criminal record, suffered from
mental health and substance abuse issues. While on methamphetamine he stabbed a... view full summary |
| 6. | Evidence was insufficient to support second-degree murder for providing controlled substance.
State v. Deon Ray Bartie, 2024-K-00897 (La. 02/06/2025) [20 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
Defendant was convicted of the second-degree murder of Brittany Lapeyrouse. The State's
theory was that defendant unlawfully provided a controlled dangerous... view full summary |
| 7. | Defendant entitled to jury charge allowing acquittal by ten of twelve jurors.
State v. Felton Thompson, 2024-KK-00564 (La. 02/06/2025) [5 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
Defendant was charged with aggravated burglary and sexual battery, with both offenses
alleged to have occurred on or about October 7, 2016. He asked the dist... view full summary |
| 8. | Court for second time orders district court to rule on motion.
State v. Twdarryl Toney, 2024-KH-01368 (La. 02/19/2025) [3 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
In January 2024 the Court granted a supervisory writ in part and, in a brief per curiam,
ordered the district court to rule on defendant's motion fo... view full summary |
| 9. | Court removes restriction from unopposed subpoena to law enforcement.
State v. Maya Jones, 2024-KK-01479 (La. 02/19/2025) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
At defendant's request a subpoena duces tecum was issued to the Houma Police Department
and the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Department. The district cou... view full summary |
| 10. | Court vacates ruling allowing testimony by surrogate analyst.
State v. Corey Morgan, 2024-KK-01327 (La. 02/25/2025) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
Defendant was charged with second-degree murder. The State filed a motion in limine
contending that the analyst who issued the report and underlying data on... view full summary |
| 11. | Court of appeal ordered to act on writ application.
State v. Josh Hollywood, 2024-KD-1558 (La. 02/25/2025) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 2
Defendant contended the Fifth Circuit failed to act timely on a supervisory writ application
he filed in August 2024. The Court granted a supervisory writ. If defendant... view full summary |
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| 12. | Court of appeal erred in vacating $8.3 million judgment for plaintiff.
Theopholia Thomas v. BNSF Railway Co., 2024-C-01252 (La. 01/28/2025) [3 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 1
Plaintiff was driving a garbage truck in Baldwin when one of the truck's tires became stuck
between railroad tracks at a crossing. By the time plaintiff was able to... view full summary |