FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE	NEWS RELEASE #27
FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

 

The Opinion handed down on the 9th day of April, 2010, is as follows:

 

2009-C -1170 C/W 2009-C -1180 C/W 2009-C -1194 CIMAREX ENERGY CO., ET AL. v. KATHERINE D. MAUBOULES, ET AL. (Parish of Vermilion)

Kimball, C.J., participated in oral argument but did not participate in the deliberation of this opinion.

For these reasons we find that the court of appeal erred in affirming the trial court's award of statutory damages to Orange River. We hereby reverse the decision of the court of appeal. REVERSED.

KNOLL, J., dissents and assigns reasons.