Case ID: so3d_201/html/0252-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "JOHNSON, C.J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Johnette L. MARTIN v. ST. BERNARD PARISH GOVERNMENT, through its President Charles Ponstein, and Lynn Dean, individually and in his Capacity as Former Parish President
    No. 2016-CC-1026
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    September 16, 2016
   JOHNSON, C.J.,

additionally concurs and assigns reasons.

JOHNSON, C.J., additionally concurs.

hi agree that defendant’s writ application in this matter, challenging the lower courts’ denial of its motion for summary judgment, was properly denied. However, I write separately to strongly encourage the district court to swiftly move this case toward a resolution.

Plaintiffs claim arises out of her termination as parish attorney in 1995—over twenty years ago. I urge the district court to actively manage this litigation and set necessary deadlines for discovery and motions so that a trial on plaintiffs suit, pending for twenty years, can be scheduled soon.