CHRISTOPHER BURNS NO. 21-C-135 VERSUS FIFTH CIRCUIT UNITED BULK TERMINALS DAVANT, LLC COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF LOUISIANA

April 27, 2021 Susan Buchholz First Deputy Clerk

IN RE UNITED BULK TERMINALS DAVANT, LLC APPLYING FOR SUPERVISORY WRIT FROM THE TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, DIRECTED TO THE HONORABLE E. ADRIAN ADAMS, DIVISION "G", NUMBER 807-658

Panel composed of Judges Susan M. Chehardy, Marc E. Johnson, and John J. Molaison, Jr.

WRIT GRANTED, IN PART, REMANDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS In his writ application, relator/defendant, United Bulk Transport Davant, LLC, seeks review of the trial court’s February 22, 2021 judgment granting the motion of respondent/plaintiff, Christopher Burns, to extend deadlines pursuant to La. R.S. 9:5830, and overruling defendant’s peremptory exception of prescription.

After review of the writ application, and finding that relator was not properly served with respondent’s motion nor given an opportunity to file a written response prior to the hearing on the motion, we grant relator’s writ application in part, vacate the trial court’s judgment in its entirety, and remand the matter with instructions to the trial court to conduct a full evidentiary hearing on all matters that were pending before it at the February 9, 2021 hearing, including relator’s peremptory exception of prescription and declinatory exception of venue, and plaintiff’s motion to extend deadlines.

Gretna, Louisiana, this 27th day of April, 2021.

SMC MEJ JJM

21-C-135 SUSAN M. CHEHARDY CURTIS B. PURSELL CHIEF JUDGE CLERK OF COURT

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