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Most Recent Cases Reported:
- East Baton Rouge Parish judge removed from office. - In re: Judge East Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts, 2025-O-01127 (La. 12/11/2025) [28 pp.]
- 15th Judicial District Court judge suspended. - In re: Judge Royale Colbert, 2025-O-00994 (La. 12/11/2025) [22 pp.]
- Plaintiff entitled to legal interest on contingency fee deposited into registry of court. - Kaster, Lynch, Farrar & Ball, LLP v. Meeks & Associates, LLC, 2025-C-1209 (La. 12/16/2025) [3 pp.]
- Three-year prescriptive period applied to company whose alleged negligence caused sexual assault. - David Rodney Elliot v. The Arc of the United States, Inc., 2025-CC-01059 (La. 11/25/2025) [5 pp.]
- Court reinstates district court judgment awarding plaintiff damages from faulty oil change. - Ja'Quarrius Ignont v. Rick Breen d/b/a Breen's Rapid Lube, 2025-C-01230 (La. 12/16/2025) [2 pp.]
- Tortfeasor not entitled to betterment deduction from cost of third-party's car repair. - Ngoc Troung v. Marcus Dewayne Sanders, 2025-C-00169 (La. 12/18/2025) [19 pp.]
- Despite language in judgment, tort plaintiff entitled to interest from date of judicial demand. - Evangelina Bilalis v. Wallace Drennan, 2025-C-00453 (La. 12/18/2025) [13 pp.]
- No abuse of discretion in refusing to stay claim under Louisiana's wrongful conviction compensation statute during pendency of federal civil rights action. - Dwayne Williams v. State of Louisiana, 2025-KK-00688 (La. 12/18/2025) [7 pp.]
- Writ application was timely under article 5059. - Succession of Garrett Joseph Claybourn, 2025-OC-01164 (La. 11/25/2025) [2 pp.]
- Discovery ruling against non-party was not appealable. - Barbara Sorenson v. Avenue Plaza Owners Association, 2025-CC-01506 (La. 12/08/2025) [5 pp.]
- Entity claiming ownership of statue should have opportunity to amend petition. - Monuments and Markers, LLC v. City of New Orleans, 2025-C-01034 (La. 12/09/2025) [2 pp.]
- 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.]
- 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.]
- 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.]
- Executrix likewise did not breach duty to trust. - Valentina v. Bryan v. Chantel G. Aymond, 2025-C-01103 (La. 11/25/2025) [6 pp.]
- 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.]
- Court reinstates district court's community property determinations. - Darnelle Bordelon Arceneaux v. Bryan David Arceneaux, 2025-C-00836 (La. 12/09/2025) [2 pp.]
- Defendant not entitled to suppress firearm abandoned in field. - State v. Tyron Burton, 2025-KK-00919 (La. 12/09/2025) [5 pp.]
- 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.]
- 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.]
- 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.]
- 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.]
- 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.]
- Court remands appeal for full analysis of confrontation clause argument. - State v. Michael R. Shorts, Jr., 2025-K-00735 (La. 12/16/2025) [2 pp.]
- State could hire private counsel in post-conviction proceedings. - State ex. rel. Darrell Draughn v. Darrel Vannoy, 2025-KD-01285 (La. 12/16/2025) [3 pp.]
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