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SUCCESSION OF Lucille Watts PATIN, Pamela Sue Patin Quantz, Charleen Patin Taylor, Rebel Kelley Caplinger, Denis Curtin Kelley, II, Dorcas Marie Kelley, Kerry Watts Kelley, and Patin-Kelley, LLC v. BREAZEALE, SACHSE & WILSON, L.L.P., David M. Charlton, and XYZ Insurance Company (“XYZ”)
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
Relators seek review of the court of appeal's May 9, 2022 judgment, which reversed the district court's January 11, 2021 judgment granting Relators’ exception of no cause of action and dismissing the legal malpractice claims asserted by Respondents. The writ application is denied.1
FOOTNOTES
1. See Dodson & Hooks, APLC v. Louisiana Community Development Capital Fund, Inc., 2020-01002 (La. 2/17/21), 310 So.3d 553 (per curiam) (although trial of the exception of no cause of action requires the court to review the petition and accept well-pleaded allegations of fact as true for the purposes of the exception, in finding that the face of the petition sufficiently states a cause of action, the court is not expressing an opinion on the merits of the cause of action).
Hughes, J., would grant. Griffin, J., would grant.
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Docket No: No. 2022-C-01116
Decided: November 01, 2022
Court: Supreme Court of Louisiana.
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