Case ID: so2d_498/html/0742-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DIXON, C.J., concurs.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Edward WESTLEY v. LAND & OFFSHORE, et al.
    No. 86-C-2286.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Dec. 19, 1986.
   DIXON, C.J., concurs.

Although the Court does have the statutory right to dismiss an appeal (it is a litigant’s constitutional right to appeal) the provision in Court of Appeal rules 2-12.12 declaring an appeal abandoned when the lawyer is late with the brief probably exceeds the authority of the Court.