COURT OF APPEAL., FIRST CIRCUIT NO. 2024 CW 0879 D& J INVESTMENTS OF CENLA, LLC, ET AL.

VERSUS

BAKER - HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, BAKER HUGHES ENERGY SERVICES LLC, DRESSER, INC., DRESSER RE, LLC, GE OIL & GAS, LLC, GHD SERVICES, INC., HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC., STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES, INC., AND STATE OF SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 LOUISIANA THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

applying In Re: Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, 19th Judicial District Court, for writs, supervisory No. 730821.

Parish of East Baton Rouge,

BEFORE: WOLFE, MILLER, AND GREENE, JJ.

September 4, 2024 judgment, WRIT GRANTED. The trial court' s 30, 2024 which vacated the portion of the appeal order dated July 25, 2024, is that had suspended the judgment signed on July reversed. The jurisdiction of the trial court over all matters in and that of the the case reviewable under the appeal is divested, appellate court attaches, on the granting of the order of appeal bond, in the case of a the filing of the appeal and timely Civ. P. art. 2088( A). The suspensive appeal. See La. Code 2024 without the suspensive appeal order was granted on July 30, The suspensive appeal necessity of posting bond or other security.

25, 2024. seeks review of the trial court' s judgment signed on July had no jurisdiction to vacate its the trial court Accordingly, Given this ruling, a suspensive appeal order as to that ruling. stay by this court is unnecessary.

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Miller, J., concurs. Once the trial court' s jurisdiction is to La. Code Civ. P. art. 2088( A), only an divested, pursuant determine whether a suspensive appellate court has authority to appeal should be converted to a devolutive appeal.

COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

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