September 3, 2008 – 7:24 am
The Louisiana Supreme Court has officially extended its Gustav-related closure through the end of this week, and will reopen on Monday, September 8. By court rule, all filings due during the closure-period will now fall due five days following the period of closure.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has officially extended […]
September 2, 2008 – 8:52 am
Just a quick note from my own evacuation site in Montgomery, Alabama, following the passage of Hurricane Gustav:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is officially closed September 2 & 3 (oral arguments for this week have been moved to Texas courthouses), and all filings due between September 1 and 5 have been […]
On July 7, 2008, the Louisiana Supreme Court released the following opinion on rehearing:
Sher v. Lafayette Insurance Co. (per curiam opinion; Traylor, Hightower, JJ., dissenting; Knoll, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part) (rehearing of original opinion released on April 8, 2008). In a rehearing opinion on this landmark Hurricane Katrina decision, the […]
The following opinions were released by the Louisiana Supreme Court on July 1, 2008:
State v. Hatton (opinion by Kimball, J.). The defendant was arrested and charged with two counts of computer-aided solicitation of a minor. Prior to trial, the defendant moved to quash the Bill of Information on the basis that La. R.S. […]
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Two things happened yesterday for The Bartlett Blawg: It was the end of the blawg’s second month, and on the same day The Bartlett Blawg passed its 2,000th hit. For those of you keeping score, that second thousand occurred in three weeks, while the first thousand took a little over five weeks. […]
The following opinion was released by the Louisiana Supreme Court on June 3, 2008:
State of Louisiana v. Jones (Opinion by Victory, J., joined by Knoll, Traylor, Kimball, Weimer, JJ.; dissent, with reasons, by Calogero, C.J.; dissent without reasons by Johnson, J.). Affirming conviction of defendant for attempted obstruction of justice for dropping baggie of […]
In the Louisiana Supreme Court’s May 21, 2008, Landry opinion (see summary of and link to opinion here), which was the Court’s other big hurricane opinion that everyone had been waiting on, the Court successfully avoided the issue of whether Louisiana’s Valued Policy Law allows for full face-value recovery under a homeowner’s policy when the […]
The following opinions were released by the Louisiana Supreme Court on May 21, 2008:
Burmaster v. Plaquemines Parish Government (Calogero, C.J.; dissenting opinions by Victory, Traylor, JJ.). The Court held that 2006 La. Act 545 — which purported to retroactively provide immunity to public entities for claims brought pursuant to La. Civil Code arts. 2317 […]
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April 21, 2008 – 10:36 am
The following opinion was released by the Louisiana Supreme Court on April 18, 2008:
Bellard v. American Central Ins. Co., et al. (Weimer, J., opinion for the Court; Calogero, C.J., concurring and assigning reasons; Victory, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part; Traylor, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part; Knoll, J., concurring in […]
Louisiana Supreme Court opinions released on April 8, 2008. We’ll start with the biggie:
Sher v. Lafayette Ins. Co. (Traylor, J.; Victory, Weimer, JJ., concurring in result; Knoll, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part; Hightower, J. Ret., sitting in place of recused Calogero, C.J.). In Katrina case, reversing La. 4th Cir. Ct. […]
