Louisiana Court of Appeal, 2025

Blount Bros. Construction, LLC v. State of Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, Zurich American Insurance Company, Janice Williams and Mike Vosburg

Blount Bros. Construction, LLC v. State of Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, Zurich American Insurance Company, Janice Williams and Mike Vosburg
Louisiana Court of Appeal · Decided January 13, 2025

Blount Bros. Construction, LLC v. State of Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, Zurich American Insurance Company, Janice Williams and Mike Vosburg

Opinion

BLOUNT BROS. CONSTRUCTION, NO. 2024 CW 0944 LLC

VERSUS

STATE OF LOUISIANA -- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT, FIDELITY & DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, JANICE WILLIAMS AND MIKE VOSBURG JANUARY 13, 2025

In Re: Blount Bros. Construction, LLC, Blount Holdings, Inc., Blount Bros. Construction, Inc., KHCD Properties, LLC, Aggregate Properties, LLC and C. for Denzil Blount applying supervisory writs, 19th Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge, No. 662319.

BEFORE: THERIOT, HESTER, AND EDWARDS, JJ.

WRIT GRANTED. La. Code Civ. P. art. 966( A)( 4)( b) permits a party seeking summary judgment to specifically reference documents previously filed into the record, but requires movant to list with the motion the document by title and date of filing and concurrently with the filing of the motion furnish the court and opposing party with a copy of the entire document with the pertinent part designated and the filing information. On de novo review, we find it undisputed that movant failed to comply with that requirement. Consequently, judgment evidence before there was no admissible summary the trial court to support the motion.

See Bonano v. Docar Sales, Inc., 2024- 0195 ( La. 1st App. Cir. 10/ 22/ 24), So. 3d 2024 WL r 4541269. Accordingly, that portion of the trial court' s July 30, 2024 judgment granting the motion for partial summary judgment filed by Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland is reversed, judgment is denied. and the motion for partial summary MRT CHH BDE

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