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| WORKERS' COMPENSATION
| | 1. | Prescription on workers' compensation claim ran despite continued employment at same salary, but employer renounced prescription by paying benefits after prescription tolled.
Lealon Johnson v. AECOM Amentum Government Services, 2025-CC-00171 (La. 12/18/2025) [18 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
Plaintiff was employed by defendant as a mechanic at Fort Polk. On June 12, 2020, he was
injured during the course and scope of his employment when he tripped over the ... view full summary | | PROPERTY
| | 2. | 1939 reciprocal driveway servitude remained between New Orleans houses.
Louis V. Hose v. James Scott O'Connell, 2025-C-01158 (La. 11/25/2025) [3 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
This case involves a dispute between neighbors over the use of a driveway in the
approximately seven feet of space between the homes built at 6331 and 63... view full summary | | SUCCESSIONS
| | 3. | Executrix had authority to sell immoveable property although trust prohibited her from doing so as trustee.
Succession of Carol James Aynond, Jr., 2025-C-01101 (La. 11/25/2025) [7 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
Carol James Aymond, Jr., died testate in 2021. He divided his estate between his daughter
Chantel and his younger daughter Delila, who was a minor. Aymond left a usufru... view full summary | | 4. | Executrix likewise did not breach duty to trust.
Valentina v. Bryan v. Chantel G. Aymond, 2025-C-01103 (La. 11/25/2025) [6 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
In this related case, the Court likewise found Chantel did not breach the duty she owed the
trust or the prudent administrator standard. Because the trust had not been ... view full summary | | DOMESTIC RELATIONS
| | 5. | District court failed to apply proper presumption to school decision by domiciliary parent.
Russell Maurice Brue v. Le Tu Tran Brue, 2025-CJ-01260 (La. 11/25/2025) [4 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
In this domestic dispute the district court granted joint custody of two minor children to
their parents. It designated defendant, their mother, as the domiciliary... view full summary | | 6. | Court reinstates district court's community property determinations.
Darnelle Bordelon Arceneaux v. Bryan David Arceneaux, 2025-C-00836 (La. 12/09/2025) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
Plaintiff and defendant were married in 1987 and divorced in 2018. During their marriage
they formed several companies, including Louisiana SW Transportation, I... view full summary | | CRIMINAL
| | 7. | Defendant not entitled to suppress firearm abandoned in field.
State v. Tyron Burton, 2025-KK-00919 (La. 12/09/2025) [5 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
While patrolling an area of New Orleans known as a location where stolen vehicles are found,
officers spotted a vehicle with no license plate that matched a stolen vehi... view full summary | | 8. | Court reinstates district court's safeguards during preliminary hearing on identification.
State v. Easton Deondre Shelvin, Jr., 2025-KK-00944 (La. 12/09/2025) [4 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
Defendant moved to suppress a photo-identification lineup, and the district court granted
the motion, finding the lineup was unduly suggestive. Defendant subse... view full summary | | 9. | District court correctly denied motion to introduce statements about victim's past sexual conduct.
State v. Brittany Linn Estes, 2025-KK-01198 (La. 12/09/2025) [13 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
In this criminal case defendant moved to introduce evidence of the victim's inconsistent
statements about his past sexual activity. The district ... view full summary | | 10. | Evidence of guns in his home was insufficient to convict defendant of gun possession by felon.
State v. Gerald Manchip White, 2024-K-01588 (La. 12/11/2025) [21 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
Just three weeks after defendant was released on parole, a parole officer visited his home
looking for another person. Defendant lived in the home with his wife, his d... view full summary | | 11. | Officer had probable cause to stop man believed to be rolling marijuana cigarettes.
State v. Cole Meeks, 2025-KK-01511 (La. 12/10/2025) [3 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
The district court granted defendant's motion to suppress, relying on State v. Davis, 359 So. 2d 986 (La. 1978), and ruling that officers lacked probable cause. The ... view full summary | | 12. | Court denies State's writ application on merits of post-conviction relief and remands for bail hearing in district court.
Keith Ezidore v. Timothy Hooper, 2025-KP-01495 (La. 12/12/2025) [5 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 33, Issue 12
In 1993 petitioner was convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Ralph
Flowers and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of paro... view full summary |
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