Opinion ID: 1128613
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Conversion into Appeal

Text: Although we now hold that an appeal is the proper vehicle for seeking review, we have previously, in order to do substantial justice, converted numerous applications for supervisory writs into appeals and remanded to a lower court with instructions to treat the application for supervisory writs as a petition for appeal and to grant that appeal. E.g., Stein v. Martin, 97-0287 (La. 3/27/97), 691 So.2d 674 (per curiam), In Re Howard, 541 So.2d at 195; see La.Code Civ.P. art. 865. [5] In the instant case, because the law regarding the finality and appealability of partial summary judgments was arguably not yet settled, [6] we likewise convert Douglass' application for supervisory writs into an appeal.