Court Opinion

ID: 6112700
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-26 16:06:16.612079+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:54:25.488680
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

            COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

AXIALL      CORPORATION,                   EAGLE                                              NO.      2021       CW    1314
SPINCO,          INC.       AND     EAGLE        US    2,
LLC

VERSUS                                                                                              IAN 2 5 2022!
SIEMENS          INDUSTRY,               INC.

                   Siemens                                         Inc.,                            for
In    Re:                                 Industry,                              applying                     supervisory
                   writs,              19th      Judicial              District           Court,      Parish        of       East

                   Baton          Rouge,         No.        647, 240.

BEFORE:            GUIDRY,             HOLDRIDGE,                AND   CHUTZ,        JJ.

        WRIT       DENIED.

                                                                   JMG
                                                                   WRC

        Holdridge,                 J.,     concurs.               Under      La.     Code     Civ.     P.    art.       561,     a

motion       to     dismiss              an     action           based     on    abandonment          is     an    ex    parte

motion       with           a     supporting                affidavit.               In    this      case,     the       trial

court       appeared              to      not    follow           the      correct         procedure         and       set     the

matter       for a           contradictory hearing.                          Under         Article     561,       the    court

should       either             sign       the     judgment             of      dismissal (         that     would       allow

the    opposing              party         to    file        a    motion        to   set     aside     the     dismissal)

or deny the motion.

COURT       OF    APPEAL,           FIRST        CIRCUIT

       DEPUTY           C    ERK    OF     COURT
                 FOR        THE    COURT