Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1991

In re Fourteenth Judicial District Court Asbestos & Silica Litigation

In re Fourteenth Judicial District Court Asbestos & Silica Litigation
Supreme Court of Louisiana · Decided October 28, 1991 · Hall
588 So. 2d 89; 1991 WL 218452 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

In re Fourteenth Judicial District Court Asbestos & Silica Litigation

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Considering the motion for clarification, as well as the opposition filed, and further considering this court’s order of November 20, 1990 as well as the report of the Judicial Administrator on his study of the progress made by the 14th Judicial District Court in handling the voluminous and complex asbestos /silica litigation, the court grants the motion and enters the following order:

The 14th Judicial District Court is instructed to immediately assign judges, other than Judge Hawsey, to conduct pre-trial proceedings and to preside over the trials of the asbestos/silica cases now fixed.

Judge Hawsey is instructed to take the dockets of the assigned judges as necessary.

HALL, J., dissents.

Dissenting Opinion

HALL, Justice,

dissenting.

The exercise of this court’s supervisory jurisdiction to upset the scheduled trials before the judge to whom the cases have been assigned by en banc order of the district court is not warranted, particularly *90in the absence of a formal pleading filed in this court.

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