Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-05-08 18:04:51.575235+00
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LAW     INDUSTRIES,                 LLC                                                          NO.     2023          CW    0143

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STATE       OF     LOUISIANA,
DEPARTMENT              OF    EDUCATION,
RECOVERY           SCHOOL           DISTRICT AND
ADVANCED           ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSULTING,               INC.

In    Re:           State           of      Louisiana,           Department                of   Education,              Recovery
                    School             District,     applying for supervisory writs,  19th
                    Judicial                District  Court,  Parish of East Baton  Rouge,
                    No.           676874.

BEFORE:             THERIOT,               CHUTZ,       AND     HESTER,         JJ.

              IT     GRANTED                IN    PART;       DENIED        IN        PART.       The      trial            court'   s

January            11,        2023           judgment           denying          the        State        of         Louisiana,
Department              of        Education,           Recovery          School        District' s            exception             of
peremption               is       reversed.           Louisiana          jurisprudence                 has     consistently
held     that       the           prescriptive             period         for    a     private          action         pursuant
to      the        Louisiana                 Unfair          Trade        Practices               Act ("           LUTPA")          is
peremptive.                   See          CamSoft           Data         Systems,              Inc.          V.       Southern
Electronics               Supply,            Inc.,       2019- 0730 (           La.     App.       lst       Cir.       7/ 2/ 19),
2019        WL    2865138 (                unpublished) ,             writs      denied,           2019- 01232,               2019-
01436,           2019- 01349, (              La.      11/ 19/ 19).         282        So. 3d      1069,           1070,       1073.
In    the        present            matter,           Advanced           Environmental                                         Inc.
                                                                                                       Consulting,
asserted            a         LUTPA              claim       against          the           State        of         Louisiana,
Department               of        Education,            Recovery          School           District                                6,
                                                                                                                  on    July
2021,        for     actions               that       form      the      basis        of    its     LUTPA          claim       that
transpired               on       or       before        July      16,     2018.           We   find      that         Advanced
Environmental Consulting, Inca' s LUTPA claim is perempted on the
face of its pleading. Accordingly, we reverse the portion of the
trial            court'       s        judgment                  the
                                                        denying                            State         of         Louisiana,
Department           of       Education,              Recovery School                  District' s            exception             of
peremption               and        grant          same.      We      dismiss           Advanced             Environmental
Consulting,               Inc.'        s    LUTPA        claim      against           the       State     of        Louisiana,
Department              of        Education,            Recovery          School           District          as     perempted.
In   all     other        respects,               the    writ      is    denied.

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