Court Opinion

ID: 9396552
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-22 22:05:49.884773+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:17.739670
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

            COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

HOSPITAL           SERVICE         DISTRICT                                                             NO.        2023       CW     0364
NO.    1     OF    THE       PARISH         OF
TERREBONNE,              STATE         OF
LOUISIANA

VERSUS

HOSPITAL           SERVICE         DISTRICT
NO.    3     OF    THE       PARISH         OF
LAFOURCHE,              STATE      OF                                                                         MAY           22,     2023
LOUISIANA           AND       THIBODAUX
REGIONAL           HEALTH         SYSTEM,             INC.

In    Re:           Thibodaux                Regional             Health            System,             Inc.,           applying           for

                    supervisory                   writs,               32nd         Judicial                  District               Court,

                    Parish         of       Terrebonne,                 No.       195104.

BEFORE:             THERIOT,            CHUTZ,          AND       HESTER,           JJ.

           STAY     LIFTED;             WRIT           GRANTED.                   The    portion              of    the           April     6,
2023         judgment             that        granted              a       preliminary                  injunction                 against

defendants,               Hospital               Service           District               No.       3     of       the        Parish        of

Lafourche,               State          of       Louisiana,                 and         Thibodaux              Regional              Health

System,            Inc.,          is     reversed. "                   A      preliminary                 injunction                 is     an

interlocutory                    procedural             device             designed            to    preserve                the     status

quo     between           the      parties,        pending                    a    determination                   on        the     merits

of     the    controversy."                   Singleton v.                    East       Baton          Rouge       Parish           School
Board,        2022- 0667 (              La.       App.         1st          Cir.        9/ 16/ 22),             353          So. 3d       164,
176.          A    plaintiff                 seeking          a        preliminary                  injunction                bears        the

burden        of    establishing                   a    prima           facie       showing             he     will          prevail on
the     merits           and      irreparable                injury.              Id. "         Irreparable                  injury has
been         interpreted                 to        mean           loss            that          cannot             be        adequately
compensated                  in     money              damages              or      measured                  by        a     pecuniary
standard."              Dale       v. Louisiana                   Secretary               of     State,            2007- 2020 (     La.

App.        1st     Cir.          10/ 11/ 07),               971        So. 2d          1136,        1141.                  Further, "       a

party who can be                       compensated in money damages                                      is not entitled to
injunctive               relief."             Conway          v.           Stratton,            434       So. 2d             1197,        1199
 La.        App.     1st         Cir.        1983).           We        find       plaintiff,                 Hospital             Service
District           No.       1    of    the       Parish           of      Terrebonne,                  State       of       Louisiana,
may     be        compensated                in       money        damages,               thus,          it        has        not     shown

irreparable               injury.                 Accordingly,                    the     request              for          preliminary
injunction              is    denied.

                                                                   MRT

                                                                   WRC
                                                                   CHH

COURT        OF    APPEAL,         FIRST          CIRCUIT

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       DEPUTY           CLERK      OF       COURT
                  FOR    THE      COURT