STATE OF LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT VELMA WILKERSON AND JAMES NO. 2025 CW 0449 WILKERSON INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALFE OF AMELIA WILKERSON VERSUS BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL AUGUST 18, 2025 CORPORATION, ET AL In Re: James Froelich, MD, applying for supervisory writs, 19th Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge, No. 671298.

BEFORE: McCLENDON, C.J., GREENE AND STROMBERG, JJ.

WRIT GRANTED WITH ORDER. The district court’s order setting a hearing on the motion to dismiss on grounds of abandonment filed by defendant, James Froelich, M.D., is vacated. La. Code Civ. P. art. 561 contains no provision to set a contradictory hearing on an ex parte motion to dismiss for abandonment. This matter is remanded to the district court with instructions to rule on the motion in accordance with La. Code Civ. P. art. 561.

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