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STATE OF LOUISIANA

                  COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

THREE       RIVERS           COMMONS         OWNERS'                                                NO.       2023           CW       1172
ASSOCIATION,                 INC.

VERSUS

DONNA       GRODNER,              ET   AL                                                  FEBRUARY                     14,           2024

In    Re:              Donna        Grodner,            applying           for           supervisory                    writs,             21st
                       Judicial             District           Court,           Parish             of     Livingston,                       No.
                       171319.

BEFORE:                McCLENDON,             HESTER,        AND MILLER,                 JJ.

        WRIT               GRANTED         WITH     ORDER.          On     October             12,        2023,             this       court

issued an action granting in part a prior writ application filed
by    relator               herein,         Donna       Grodner,           and     reversing the                         portion             of

the     trial               court'     s     August          14,        2023     judgment   that                         denied             Ms.
Grodner' s             motion          to    designate             the    record          on       appeal.                  This       court
further            ordered             the        trial      court         clerk          of        court'        s      office "            to

prepare           the        appeal         record      in    accordance              with          Local         Rule           5    of    the
Louisiana                  Court       of    Appeal,          First        Circuit,                and     to           include             any
additional                  document s
                                     '             designated             in     Ms.       Grodner' s '                     Motion           to
Designate                  Record'         that     are      not        specifically                 described                   in    Local

Rule        S."              See       Three        Rivers          Commons     Owners'                    Ass' n,               Inc.        v.

Grodner,           2023- 0879 (              La.    App.       1st       Cir.        10/ 12/ 23)           2023             WL        6634106
 unpublished).                         Despite            this      court'       s       October              12,           2023           writ

action,           on       October          16,    2023,      the        trial       court          granted             a    motion          to
dismiss           Ms.        Grodner' s            appeal          for     failure             to       pay       the        estimated

costs       of     appeal           that         were     sent     to     Ms.    Grodner             on    August                7,     2023.
Accordingly,                   we       vacate          the        trial        court'         s     October                 16,           2023

judgment dismissing Ms.                             Grodner' s            appeal.              The      trial           court           clerk
of    court'           s    office          is    hereby       ordered           to       prepare             a       new        estimate

for     the        cost           of       preparation             of     the        record          for          Ms.        Grodner' s
appeal            in        accordance             with      this        court'      s    October                 12,       2023           writ

action.

                                                                   PMC
                                                                   CHR
                                                                   SMM

COURT       OF APPEAL,                 FIRST       CIRCUIT

       DEPUTY              CLERK       OF   COURT
                  FOR       THE     COURT