NEW LIVING WORD SCHOOL NO. 2025 CW 0717 VERSUS

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, A DEPARTMENT OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND JOHN WHITE, IN HIS OFFICIAL, CAPACITY AS SUPERINTENDENT JULY 24, 2025 OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

In Re: Louisiana Department of Education, applying for supervisory writs, 19th Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge, No. 625188.

BEFORE: THERIOT, LANIER, AND MILLER, JJ.

WRIT GRANTED. The portion of the district court' s July 3, 2025 order which ordered defendant, the Louisiana Department of Education, to pay the costs by July 30, 2025 is vacated. La. R. S.

13: 5112( B) provides that neither the state nor any department shall be required to pay any such award of court costs until the judgment rendered against the state or department shall become final and definitive under the provisions of Articles 2166 and 2167 of the Code of Civil Procedure or otherwise nonappealable or nonreviewable beyond the delays set by law for same and the funds have been appropriated. therefor in a specific dollar amount.

Defendant herein, a state agency, filed a motion for suspensive appeal, and accordingly, the judgment rendered herein against defendant has not become final and definitive.

MRT WIL SMM

COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

DEPUTY C ERK OF COURT FOR THE COURT