Case ID: so2d_723/html/0963-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Albert J. AVENAL, Jr., et al. v. The STATE of Louisiana Through the DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.
    No. 98-CC-2367.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Sept. 9, 1998.
   In re Louisiana, State of; Natural Resources, Dept, of; — Defendant(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writ; Parish of Plaquemines, 25th Judicial District Court, Div. “B”, No. 38-266; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, No. 98CW-1661.

The ruling of the court of appeal, denying the application as incomplete, is reversed. Relator is ordered to supplement the application within five days of this order, and the court of appeal is ordered to consider and dispose of the application on its merits.

CALOGERO, C.J., not on panel.

LEMMON, J.,

concurs. When a relator fails to attach pleadings to an application for supervisory writs, the court ordinarily should not simply deny the application on that basis, but should require a supplemental filing of the missing pleading or pleadings within a specified period of time.