| STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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| 1. | Court reinstates district court judgment finding agency not arbitrary and capricious in awarding contract for Convention Center improvements.
The Lemoine Company, LLC v. The Ernest N. Morial Exhibition Hall Authority, 2023-C-00763 c/w 2023-00775 (La. 10/17/2023) [5 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 10
The Ernest N. Morial Exhibition Hall Authority (the Authority) is a political subdivision of
the State and operates the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Conventio... view full summary |
| CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
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| 2. | Phrase in Ethics Code prohibiting certain contracts was unconstitutionally vague.
The Cartesian Company, Inc. v. Division of Administration Law Ethics Adjudicatory Board Panel, 2023-CA-00398 (La. 10/20/2023) [34 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 10
The Lafayette Public Trust Financing Authority (LPTFA) administered the Section 8 Housing
Choice Voucher program in Lafayette and West Lafayette. Greg Gachassin was a t... view full summary |
| JUVENILE
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| 3. | Delinquency adjudication reinstated based on evidence juvenile was principal to crimes.
State in the Interest of DW, 2022-CK-01654 (La. 10/20/2023) [7 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 10
In the early morning hours of April 23, 2021, a marked St. Tammany Sheriff's Office vehicle
parked in Slidell was burglarized. Stolen items included a police radio,... view full summary |
| CRIMINAL
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| 4. | District court must act on motion to correct illegal sentence.
State v. Morris Edwards, 2023-KH-01099 (La. 10/03/2023) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 10
Defendant represented that the district court failed to act timely on a motion to correct illegal
sentence filed in July 2023. The Court granted a supervisory ... view full summary |
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| 5. | Defendant's statement to victim during course of criminal act was admissible.
State v. Donald Franklin, 2023-KK-01332 (La. 10/04/2023) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 10
Defendant filed a motion in limine to exclude evidence of a statement he allegedly made to
the victim during the commission of the criminal acts at issue to entice the ... view full summary |
| CRIMINAL
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| 6. | Court excludes opinion of mental health expert regarding lack of deviant sexual tendencies.
State v. Donald Warden, 2023-KK-00898 (La. 10/17/2023) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 10
Defendant sought to present testimony from a mental health expert that defendant was a
moral person without deviant sexual tendencies that might prompt pedophiliac beh... view full summary |
| EVIDENCE
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| 7. | Court reverses judgment finding spoliation of evidence.
Hilda Fobb v. Stericycle, Inc., 2023-CC-00697 (La. 09/19/2023) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 9
Plaintiffs filed suit against defendant as a result of a car accident involving defendant's
employee. Plaintiffs contended that defendant complete... view full summary |
| 8. | Court orders continuance given counsel's medical issues.
Kingfish Asset Management, LLC v. Radine Bultman, 2023-CC-01260 (La. 09/15/2023) [4 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 9
Plaintiffs moved to continue trial of this matter based on counsel's medical issues, and the
district court denied the motion. The Court granted a supervisory writ ... view full summary |
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| 9. | One defendant's waiver of abandonment defense did not amount to waiver by another defendant.
John Greene v. Vermilion Parish Hospital Service District No. 2 d/b/a Abbeville General Hospital, 2023-CC-00670 (La. 09/19/2023) [4 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 9
Plaintiff filed this medical malpractice action against Abbeville General Hospital and Dr. Trent Fogleman in July 2016. Abbeville General moved for summary jud... view full summary |
| EVIDENCE
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| 10. | Plaintiffs who voluntarily dismissed redistricting suit must pay State's costs.
James Bullman v. Kyle Ardoin, 2023-C-00688 c/w 2023-00689 c/w 2023-00690 (La. 09/26/2023) [3 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 9
On March 10, 2022, plaintiffs filed suit against the Louisiana Secretary of State contending
that Louisiana's congressional districts were malapportioned, unc... view full summary |
| STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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| 11. | Order requiring parish to pay into court's registry funds owed to plaintiffs is unconstitutional.
William Mellor v. The Parish of Jefferson, 2022-CC-01713 (La. 09/08/2023) [19 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 9
In 2008 the Jefferson Parish Council adopted ordinance Section 36-320, et seq., titled "School
Bus Safety Enforcement Program for Detecting Violations of Overtaking... view full summary |
| SUCCESSIONS
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| 12. | Duplicate required to prove validity of lost notarial testament.
In re Succession of Diana Bartlett Morgan, 2022-C-01763 (La. 09/08/2023) [17 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 31, Issue 9
Diana Lynn Ford filed a petition to open the small succession of her mother, Diana Bartlett
Morgan. The petition alleged the decedent died intestate because an... view full summary |