Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-11 23:07:16.369186+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:48:58.732522
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

                 COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

PUI    KWAN       YUEN                                                                    NO.     2023   CW    1012

VERSUS

STATE       NATIONAL          INSURANCE
COMPANY,          INC.,       RIFFAL,
L. L. C.     AND       GEOFFREY         SCOTT                                        OCTOBER         11,      2023
HALL

In    Re:          Gemini          Insurance       Company, Dugas Pest Control of Baton

                   Rouge,           Inc.,      and  Geoffrey  Scott Hall, applying  for

                   supervisory                writs,        19th      Judicial                  District       Court,

                   Parish          of   East    Baton      Rouge,    No.        605561.

BEFORE:            WELCH,          HOLDRIDGE,        AND    WOLFE,        JJ.

        WRIT       DENIED.

                                                           JEW

                                                            EW

        Holdridge,             J,       dissents      and    would        grant       the       writ.      There      is
no    legal       authority             for    the   district        court           to    deprive       defendants
of    the        right        to     cross         examine       plaintiff.               Plaintiff        shall      be
available          after       direct          examination          for    questioning,              and      nothing
can    deprive          defendants            of    their    right    to        cross       examine      plaintiff
in    their       case - in        chief.      See   La.    Code    Civ.        P.    art.       1634.

COURT       OF   APPEAL,           FIRST      CIRCUIT

                                        J l_J`
       DEPUTY          CLERK       OF   COURT
                 FOR    THE    COURT