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Date Created: 2024-01-29 18:06:52.014908+00
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

         COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

JEREMY WILLIAMS                                                                     NO.     2023 CW         1227

VERSUS

STUPP COATINGS,             LLC                                                JANUARY            29,       2024

In Re:             Kandis      Bradley,            individually            as       spouse         of       Jeremy
                 Williams,           Sr.,       and     on     behalf          of    her     minor          child,
                 Kyleigh       Williams,           Daidrell         Jackson,           on   behalf          of    her
                 minor      children,           Jeremy Williams,               Jr.,       Jermarion         Baker,
                 Houston          Williams,           and      Jerney          Jackson,           and       Alicia
                 Maloid,       on behalf of her minor                     child,          A'layjah Maloid,
                   applying       for    supervisory writs,                19th        Judicial         District
                   Court,     Parish of East Baton Rouge,                        No.      703766.

BEFORE:          McCLENDON,          HESTER,       AND MILLER,           JJ.

        WRIT       GRANTED.        The     portion of          the trial            court's October               18,
2023      judgment          which       granted,         in    part,       Stupp          Coatings,          LLC's
motion       for    summary       judgment         and dismissed plaintiffs'                       claim that
the     conduct        of     Stupp      Coatings,          LLC    constituted              an    intentional
act     is   reversed.          On    de    novo      review,       we    conclude          genuine         issues
of    material         fact    exist       as    to     whether         Jeremy      Williams'           accident
was "    substantially certain"                    to   occur.           See    Reeves       v.    Structural
Pres .       Sys . ,      9 8 -179 5 (      La .      3 / 12 / 9 9) ,     7 31       So . 2d       2 08 ,        211 .
Therefore,          the     motion         for     summary        judgment           on     that     claim         is
denied.

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COURT     OF APPEAL,          FIRST CIRCUIT

        DEPUTY     CLERK OF COURT
             FOR THE        COURT