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   State Courts - Louisiana - April 5, 2006

  
Albarado v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co., CA 05-1084, COURT OF APPEAL OF LOUISIANA, THIRD CIRCUIT, April 5, 2006, Opinion Rendered
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Overview: In dispute among an injured auto passenger, her husband, an insured, and an insurer, trial court erred in granting summary judgment for insured and insurer because a novation had occurred, pursuant to La. Civ. Code Ann. art. 1879, when parties executed second agreement and release, and genuine issues existed as to compromise's validity.

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Allen v. Belgard, 05-1284, COURT OF APPEAL OF LOUISIANA, THIRD CIRCUIT, April 5, 2006, Opinion Rendered
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Overview: Trial court reversed the denial of the claimants' motion for a new trial as to the possessory claims to their driveway and carport because they intended to possess it as owners, and it did constitute an artificial mark sufficient to give definite notice to the public of the character and extent of the possession.

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Broussard v. Lafayette Parish Sch. Bd., WCA 05-575, COURT OF APPEAL OF LOUISIANA, THIRD CIRCUIT, April 5, 2006, Opinion Rendered
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Overview: Pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 23:1221(3)(a), a workers' compensation claimant was entitled to supplemental earnings benefits based upon zero, as none of the new positions identified by a vocational rehabilitation counselor were suitable because the counselor ignored the physical, mental, and educational limitations of the claimant.

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Brown v. Lee, NO. 2005-CA-1302, COURT OF APPEAL OF LOUISIANA, FOURTH CIRCUIT, April 5, 2006, Decided
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Overview: In a parade viewer's action against a parade sponsor and its member under La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 9:2796(A), summary judgment in favor of the member was improper as there was a genuine issue as to whether the member was grossly negligent in the way he handled the coconut that injured the parade viewer.

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Brown v. Schreiner, NO. 2005-CA-0255, COURT OF APPEAL OF LOUISIANA, FOURTH CIRCUIT, April 5, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Because defendants did not appeal from March 26, 2004 judgment, which partitioned ownership interests of fence company in contract dispute, within 60 days after trial court denied plaintiffs' motion for new trial, trial court lacked authority to extend 60-day deadline of La. Code Civ. Proc. Ann. art. 2087A(1) and grant defendants devolutive appeal.

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Castille v. Old Evangeline Downs, L.L.C., 05-1251, COURT OF APPEAL OF LOUISIANA, THIRD CIRCUIT, April 5, 2006, Opinion Rendered
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Overview: Trial court erred in granting injunctions preventing a race track from offering video poker gaming as La. Const. art. XII, § 6(C)(1) did not require a referendum on the facility or location of the forms of gaming, but simply required voter approval of the form of gaming.

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Ceasar v. Hebert, 05-1195 c/w 05-1196, COURT OF APPEAL OF LOUISIANA, THIRD CIRCUIT, April 5, 2006, Opinion Rendered
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Overview: In a former prisoner's negligence suit against the sheriff and a deputy for injuries sustained when he was a prisoner while riding in a truck driven by the deputy, summary judgment was properly granted in favor of the sheriff and the deputy as they were immune from ordinary negligence under La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 15:708.

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Corsey v. Iberia Parish Gov't, 05-1196 c/w 05-1195, COURT OF APPEAL OF LOUISIANA, THIRD CIRCUIT, April 5, 2006, Opinion Rendered
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Cunard Line Ltd. Co. v. Datrex, Inc., 05-1171, COURT OF APPEAL OF LOUISIANA, THIRD CIRCUIT, April 5, 2006, Opinion Rendered
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Overview: An exception of prescription was properly granted in a case involving a dispute over allegedly defective cruise ship lighting systems because a one-year period in La. Civ. Code Ann. art. 2534 applied to warranty cases under La. Civ. Code Ann. art. 2520; the ten-year period applicable to La. Civ. Code Ann. art. 2524 applied to fitness actions.

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Delano Plantation v. Lowrey, 05-1337, COURT OF APPEAL OF LOUISIANA, THIRD CIRCUIT, April 5, 2006, Opinion Rendered
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Overview: Trial court properly revised and adopted the receiver's financial restatement of the value of a family plantation because the receiver had presented sufficient evidence to support the stated value had it not been mismanaged by majority shareholders and to support the reductions in the improper expenses that reduced minority shareholder's interest.

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