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STATE OF LOUISIANA

        COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

DALE    MILLER                                                               NO.       2023 CW       1159

VERSUS

COL.    NICK    SANDERS;        AND       STATE
OF    LOUISIANA THROUGH
LOUISIANA       DEPARTMENT           OF
PUBLIC       SAFETY AND
                                                                           JANUARY           18,    2024
CORRECTIONS,         LOUISIANA            STATE
PENITENTIARY

In Re:          Dale       Miller,          applying        for     supervisory          writs,          20th
                Judicial         District         Court,     Parish    of West         Feliciana,          No.
                23832.

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

        WRIT    DENIED.             Once     a    judgment        containing       proper          decretal
language       is    rendered,            the    ruling     dismissing        plaintiff's            action
will    constitute         a    final      and appealable           judgment.          In order         for    a
judgment       to    be    a    final      and    appealable        one,    it    must       be    precise,
definite,       and       certain.          It    must    also    contain     decretal            language,
and     it    must     name         the    party     in     favor    of     whom       the    ruling          is
ordered,       the    party         against       whom     the   ruling     is    ordered,         and     the
relief       that    is    expressly         granted       or    denied    without       reference            to
other        documents         in    the     record.        Advanced       Leveling &              Concrete
Solutions       v.    Lathan        Company,        Inc.,       2017-1250 (      La.   App.       1st    Cir.
12/20/18),       268      So.3d      1044,       1046 (    en bane).       Once    a    judgment with
appropriate          decretal         language       is     issued    by    the    district          court,
it     will     represent             a     final,        appealable        judgment,             and      the
plaintiff,          Dale Miller,           will    be     entitled to      file    a    motion       for      an
appeal therefrom in accordance with applicable law.

                                                     JMG
                                                     WRC
                                                     WIL

COURT    OF APPEAL,            FIRST CIRCUIT

       DEPUTY    CLERK OF           COURT
              FOR THE      COURT