SCOTT WESLEY EASTMAN ET UX v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL (2023)

IN RE: Jillian Peterson - Applicant Defendant; State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Writ Of Certiorari, Parish of Calcasieu, 14th Judicial District Court Number(s) 16-4474, Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, Number(s) 22-712;

Writ application granted - see briefing notice and Order.

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Supreme Court of Louisiana November 21, 2023

Supreme Court

STATE OF LOUISIANA

New Orleans

CHIEF JUSTICE

JOHN L. WEIMER Sixth District

JUSTICES

WILLIAM J. CRAIN First District

SCOTT J. CRICHTON Second District

JAMES T. GENOVESE Third District

JAY B. MCCALLUM Fourth District

JEFFERSON D. HUGHES III Fifth District

PIPER D. GRIFFIN Seventh District

VERONICA O. KOCLANES

CLERK OF COURT

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NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130-8102

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November 21, 2023

2023-C-01107

SCOTT WESLEY EASTMAN, ET UX.

VS.

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, ET AL.

NOTE: FOR BRIEFING PURPOSES WRIT GRANTED November 21, 2023

MEMORANDUM TO COUNSEL IN CAPTIONED CASE:

Please be advised that the above-captioned matter will be set for oral argument on this Court's next available docket. A copy of the official docket with the specific date and time of oral argument will be mailed out.

Please note Section 8 of Rule VII of the Rules of this Court provides that the applicant or relator, as the case may be, must file their briefs on or before December 18, 2023; and the respondent on or before January 5, 2024.

Oral argument will be waived if brief is untimely filed. Briefs submitted on legal sized paper should be fastened at the top. All briefs should be backed with the customary “Blueback” or other flexible material. In criminal proceedings, the court directs that counsel must file a brief. Failure to do so may subject counsel to a penalty of contempt of Court.

It is further provided in Rule VII, Section 9 that briefs sent through the mail shall be deemed timely filed if mailed on or before the due date. If the brief is received by mail on the first legal day following the expiration of the delay, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that it was timely filed. In all cases where the presumption does not apply, the timeliness of the mailing shall be shown only by an official United States postmark or by official receipt or certificate from the United States Postal Service, or bona fide commercial mail services such as Federal Express or United Parcel Service, made at the time of mailing which indicates the date thereof. Any other date stamp, such as a private commercial mail meter stamp, or label from an Automated Postal Center, shall not be used to establish timeliness.

Briefs forwarded by private delivery or courier service shall be deemed timely filed only if received by the clerk on or before the last day of the delay for filing.

Regards,

Katie Marjanovic Chief Deputy Clerk of Court

ccs: All Counsel

Hon. Robert L. Wyatt

Hon. H. Lynn Jones, II

Hon. Renee R. Simien

14th Judicial District Court: 16-4474

Court of Appeal, Third Circuit: 22-712

11/21/2023

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

No. 2023-C-01107

SCOTT WESLEY EASTMAN, ET UX.

VERSUS

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, ET AL.

On Writ of Certiorari and/or Review

Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu, No. 16-4474; Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, No. 22-712.

And, whereas, the Court has this date, pursuant to Article 5, Section 5, of the Constitution of Louisiana, made and issued the following order, to wit— “It is ordered that the writ of review issue; that the District Court and the Court of Appeal send up the record in Duplicate of the case; and that counsel for all parties be notified.”

Now, therefore, the said District Court and the Court of Appeal is hereby commanded, in the name of the State of Louisiana and of this Honorable Court, to send up forthwith to this Court, in accordance with Supreme Court Rule 1, at the City of New Orleans, the record in duplicate of the above-entitled case.

Witness the Honorable Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, on this 21ST day of November, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand Twenty-Three.

Katie R. Marjanovic Chief Deputy Clerk of Court