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  • In Re: M/V CSS CSSV, as Owner and Operator of the M/V M/V CCS Virginia, Official No. 1064520, and Carline Management Company, Inc.

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Jan 20, 2021

    Background Claimant Jenkins, captain on board the M/V CSS VIRGINIA, a vessel owned by CSS Virginia, was injured when he was disembarking from the vessel during a … Production of the M/V CSS ALBEMARLE Jenkins’s first request is for production of the M/V CSS ALBEMARLE “for inspection.”11 According to his Motion to Compel, Jenkins seeks access to the M/V CSS ALBEMARLE

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  • Dreher v. United States, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms

    943 F. Supp. 680 · District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Sep 30, 1996

    Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat, Inc., 429 U.S. 477, 488 , 97 S.Ct. 690, 697 , 50 L.Ed.2d 701 (1977); Brown Shoe Co. v. United States, 370 U.S. 294, 320 , 82 S.Ct. 1502, 1521 , 8 L.Ed.2d 510 (1962). … As the Fifth Circuit declared in U.S. v.

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  • Williams v. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Apr 13, 2022

    R.S. 17:3351(A)(1) provides that the Board of Supervisors of LSU, as the post- secondary management board for LSU and its related entities, has the capacity to sue and be sued. … No. 10, p. 5–7. 14 Davis v. Louisiana State Univ. & A&M Coll., 2019 WL 179580, at *4 (M.D. La. Jan. 11, 2019).

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  • United Ass'n of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry, Local 198 v. Nichols Construction Corp.

    502 F. Supp. 465 · District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Dec 4, 1980

    Additionally, the Union filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). … United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co., 363 U.S. 564 , 80 S.Ct. 1343 , 4 L.Ed.2d 1403 (1960); United Steelworkers v.

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  • Tingle v. Hebert

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Aug 14, 2019

    Appx. 403, 407 (5th Cir. 2010) (quoting Brown v. Bryan Cty., 219 F.3d 450, 456 (5th Cir. 2000)). … Brown, 219 F.3d at 456 (citing Rhodes v. Guiberson Oil Tools, 75 F.3d 989, 993 (5th Cir. 1996)).

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  • Lewis v. Louisiana State University

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Jul 5, 2023

    As an initial matter, it is not clear that Barton and Crochet have a right to appeal the ruling that the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors (“the Board”) must produce certain documents and make certain individuals … No. 1, Lewis v. Crochet, No. 23-30386 (5th Cir. June 16, 2023). 3 R. Doc. 340. 4 R.

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  • Thompson v. East Feliciana School System

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Apr 19, 2021

    See LR 26(d)(1); Price v. Maryland Cas. … Wells v. Sears Roebuck and Co., 203 F.R.D. 240, 241 (S.D.

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  • Frederick v. LeBlanc

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · May 4, 2020

    Another Section of this Court has rejected Secretary LeBlanc's attempt to invoke Heck in a factually-similar overdetention context, Grant v. Gusman, 17-cv-02797, R. Doc. 46 (E.D. La. March 27, 2018)(Brown, C.J.). … See Grant v. Gusman, No. 17-2792, 2018 WL 3869494, at *10 (E.D. La. Aug. 14, 2018)(Brown, C.J.). The Court agrees. Mr.

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  • Sullivan

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · May 1, 2026

    Co. v. White, 548 U.S. 53, 56 (2006) (cleaned up) (quotations and citation omitted). Where “a retaliation case is based on circumstantial evidence,” courts “apply the McDonnell Douglas framework.” Brown v. … Brown, 969 F.3d at 577 (citation omitted).

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  • Andrade v. Stewart

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Jan 12, 2023

    (“the School Board”). … Co. v. Houston Natl Bank, 515 F. 2d 1200, 1206 (5th Cir. 1975); Reyes v. VH Acoustic Ceilings, LLC, No. 18-cv-00790, 2020 WL 504659, at *2 (M.D. La. Jan. 31, 2020) (Jackson, J.). B.

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  • Sneed v. Abbott

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Jul 20, 2021

    That authority—Heck v. … Conversely, in Jeffery v. Owens, 216 F.

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  • Cooperative Benefit Administrators, Inc. v. Ogden

    265 F. Supp. 2d 662 · District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Apr 28, 2003

    Nesom v. Brown & Root, U.S.A., Inc., 987 F.2d 1188, 1194-95 (5th Cir.l993)(plan can recoup overpayment of disability benefits upon beneficiary's receipt of lump sum award from worker’s compensation). … Chailland v. Brown & Root, Inc., 45 F.3d 947, 950 (5th Cir.1995)(citing Denton v. First National Bank, 765 F.2d 1295, 1300-03 (5th Cir.1985)). See also, Simmons v. Willcox, 911 F.2d 1077, 1081 (5th Cir. 1990). 59 .

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  • United States v. Jarman

    61 F. Supp. 3d 598 · District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Oct 14, 2014

    Florida v. Harris, — U.S. -, 133 S.Ct. 1050, 1055 , 185 L.Ed.2d 61 (2013) (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Texas v. Brown, 460 U.S. 730, 742 , 103 S.Ct. 1535 , 75 L.Ed.2d 502 (1983)). … Brown, 460 U.S. at 742 , 103 S.Ct. 1535 (citations omitted) (quoting Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 162 , 45 S.Ct. 280 , 69 L.Ed. 543 (1925)).

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  • Burg

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Mar 11, 2026

    Doc. 13-1, p. 5, citing Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders, 542 U.S. 129, 141 (2004). 95 R. Doc. 13-1, p. 5, citing Haley v. Alliance Compressor LLC, 391 F.3d 644, 649 (5th Cir. 2004) (citing Brown v. … (citing Brown, 237 F.3d at 566 and Landgraf v.

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  • Blank

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Mar 19, 2026

    In Draughn v. … .”); see also State v.

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  • Mealey v. City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Sep 30, 2025

    On June 10, 2023, BRPD officers, including Lawrence, Jr., performed a traffic stop on Ternell Brown and her husband. (id. at § 193). Officers allegedly searched the Browns’ vehicle without warrant or consent. … Officers found only prescription medication in Brown’s lawful possession. (/d.). Officers took Brown to the BRAVE Cave, where they subjected her to a strip and body cavity search. (Ud.).

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  • Geller v. City of Baton Rouge

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Nov 6, 2019

    See, Zapata v. … March 17, 2017) (quoting Fraiche v. Sonitrol of Baton Rouge, Civil Action No. 08-392, 2010 WL 4809328, at *1 (M.D. La. Nov. 19, 2010)) (quoting Coughlin v. Lee, 946 F.2d 1152, 1159 (5th Cir. 1991); Fed. R. Civ.

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  • Courville v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Mar 12, 2025

    Doc. 25-1, p. 6. 132 Tuttle v. Sepolio, 68 F.4th 969, 976 (5th Cir. 2023) (citing Brown v. … Miller, 519 F.3d 231, 238–39 (5th Cir. 2008)). 133 Brown, 519 F.3d at 239 (citing Sorey v. Kellett, 849 F.2d 960, 961–63 (5th Cir.1988)). 134 Williams v.

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  • Lewis v. Louisiana State University

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · Sep 10, 2021

    City of New Iberia, the Fifth Circuit ruled that “the [University of Southwestern Louisiana] Board has the right to sue and be sued in its own name, [but] the University does not.”91 Similarly, in EEOC v. … In Chappell v.

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  • Nairne v. Ardoin

    District Court, M.D. Louisiana · May 3, 2024

    Comm'n Council v. … Comm'n Council v. U.S., by Mitchell, 416 F.2d 952 (5th Cir. 1969). 31 U. S. by Clark v. Plaquemines Par. Sch. Bd., 291 F. Supp. 841, 854–55 (E.D. La. 1967), modified sub nom. Plaquemines Par. Sch. Bd. v.

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