United States Fifth Circuit

The State of Louisiana's constitutional immunity from prescription of claims does not enure to the benefit of a school board, a royalty owner of a tract of land, suing solely in its capacity as royalty owner and not in the name of the state.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/13/2002
• Published 11/13/2002

Judges

• KURT D. ENGELHARDT, District Judge:, Before SMITH and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and ENGELHARDT, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael X. St. Martin,Joseph G. Jevic (argued), St. Martin & Williams, Houma, LA, Andrew J. Gray, III, Wade Thomas Visconte, The Gray Law Firm, Lake Charles, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Beattie McNeal (argued), Monica Levine Lacks, Frilot, Partridge, Kohnke & Clements, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.