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Most Recent Cases Reported:
- Court sidesteps issue of constitutionality of lifetime sex offender registration for juveniles, holding that habeas relief was not available. - State in the Interest of A.N., 2018-CK-01571 (La. 10/22/19) [19 pp.]
- State failed to prove juvenile's age at time of offense, so lifetime sex offender registration did not apply. - State in the Interest of E.S., 2018-CK-01763 (La. 10/22/19) [24 pp.]
- District attorney did not have authority to dismiss and reinstitute charges to avoid evidentiary ruling. - State v. Fred Reimonenq, 2019-KK-00367 (La. 10/22/19) [19 pp.]
- Court reverses convictions because of district court's error in Batson analysis. - State v. Kenneth Jones, 2017-K-00658 (La. 10/22/19) [27 pp.]
- State failed in its burden regarding predicate out-of-state guilty plea for habitual offender adjudication. - State v. Desmond C. Parker, 2019-K-0028 (La. 10/22/19) [12 pp.]
- Court clarifies application of amended Habitual Offender Law. - State v. Henry Pierre Lyles, 2019-KO-00203 (La. 10/22/19) [8 pp.]
- Insured's bad faith claim against insurer was subject to ten-year prescriptive period. - Beverly Smith v. Citadel Insurance Co., 2019-CC-00052 (La. 10/22/19) [18 pp.]
- Plaintiff's claims were for administrative negligence and not medical malpractice. - Brenda Scio v. University Medical Center Management Corp., 2019-CC-1319 (La. 10/21/19) [1 pp.]
- Public entity's bid advertisement could not impose more restrictive requirements than Public Bid Law. - LeBlanc Marine v. State of Louisiana, 2019-C-0053 (La. 10/22/19) [9 pp.]
- Act revoking prior wills was effective even without date. - Succession of Edward Robin, Sr., 2019-C-0405 (10/23/19) [18 pp.]
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