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Date Created: 2024-01-25 22:06:18.168823+00
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

          COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

DANIELLE       DARENSBOURG YOUNG                                                      NO.       2023 CW           1170

VERSUS

OTTO    CHRISTIAN HALL,               D.P.M.                                      JANUARY             18,        2024

In Re:           Otto       Christian         Hall,       D. P.M.,         applying            for     supervisory
                 writs,         19th     Judicial             District          Court,         Parish           of    East
                 Baton Rouge,           No.     728507.

BEFORE:          GUIDRY,        C.J.,     CHUTZ AND LANIER,                    JJ.

        WRIT     NOT       CONSIDERED.               This      writ       application                is    untimely.
Defendant's          notice       of    intent          was    filed       on    October         9,       2023,       more
than      thirty       days      after        the       district          court        signed          a       judgment
denying     defendant's               exception          of    no       cause    of    action             on    May    2 3,
2023,      and      notice        of     judgment             was        mailed       on       May         31,       2023.
Although       the    district          court's May            23,       2023    judgment            attempted to
designate        that       judgment          as     final,         a     judgment            which        denies        an
exception        is       not    subject           to    designation             as       a     final          judgment
pursuant       to     La.    Code       Civ.    P.      art.       1915(B).           A       district           court's
rendition        of        judgment          improperly             certifying             a     denial           of     an
exception        as    a    final,       appealable             judgment         is     ineffectual.                   See
Belanger       v.     Gabriel         Chems.,        Inc.,         2000-0747 (         La.       App.          1st    Cir.
5/23/01),           787     So.2d        559,        563,       writ          denied,          2001-2289 (             La.
11/16/01),           802     So.2d        612.            Accordingly,                the       May         23,       2023
judgment was           interlocutory,              and there             is    no motion         for       new       trial
as   to   an    interlocutory            ruling;          motions          for    new         trial       pertain        to
final      judgments            only.         Allstate          Insurance            Co.        v.    Mohamadian,
2009-1126 (         La.     App.        1st     Cir.      2/17/10),             35     So.3d          1118,          1121.
Therefore,          the     motion       for    new       trial          was    procedurally                improper.
Most    significantly,             the    filing         of    a    motion       for      new    trial           seeking
reconsideration             of    an    interlocutory                ruling       cannot         interrupt             the
thirty-day          period        for        filing       an        application                for     supervisory
writs     established            by    Rule     4-3      of    the       Uniform       Rules         of    Louisiana
Courts     of    Appeal.          See    Carter          v.    Rhea,          2001-0234 (            La.       App.    4th
Cir.    4/25/01),          785 So.2d 1022,               1025.

        Supplementation                 of      this           writ           application              and/ or           an
application           for    rehearing          will      not       be    considered.            Uniform             Rules
of Louisiana Courts of Appeal,                           Rules      2-18.7 &          4-9.

                                                         JMG
                                                         WRC
                                                         WIL

COURT     OF APPEAL,         FIRST CIRCUIT

       DEPUTY     CLERK OF         COURT
            FOR THE         COURT