<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="90%"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td valign="top" width="63%">FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE</td><td valign="top" width="37%"><div align="right">NEWS RELEASE #061</div></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td valign="top">FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA</td><td valign="top"> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;">On the <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">30th day of September, 2008</span></strong>, the following action was taken by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the case listed below:</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>REMANDED TO DISCIPLINARY BOARD; SEE PER CURIAM</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="/opinions/2008/08B1614.pc.pdf">2008-B -1614 IN RE: CALVIN LESTER</a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;">On the <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>1st day of October, 2008</strong></span>, the following action was taken by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the case listed below:</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>STAY DENIED; WRIT APPLICATION DENIED</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KK-2310 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. CYNTHIA GOODMAN (Parish of Orleans)<br />CALOGERO, C.J., would grant.</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;">On the <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>3rd day of October, 2008</strong></span>, the following actions were taken by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the cases listed below:</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>WRIT APPLICATIONS GRANTED</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-K -0492 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. WALTER R. COX, SR. (Parish of Calcasieu)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-CC-1221 SHAUN COLEMAN v. JIM WALTER HOMES, INC. (Parish of Natchitoches)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1268 SHERRON G. BOWERS v. FIREFIGHTERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM (Parish of E. Baton Rouge)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>WRIT APPLICATIONS GRANTED WITH ORDER</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-1410 STATE EX REL. TERRY KELLY v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-CC-1426 LAURA MONTGOMERY, ET AL. v. STATE OF LOUISIANA, ET AL. (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-1515 STATE EX REL. PEDRO BACOT v. STATE OF LOUSIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-1974 STATE EX REL. JOSHUA G. KELLY v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-1975 STATE EX REL. LEROY GRIPPEN v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>APPLICATION TRANSFERRED TO COURT OF APPEAL FIFTH CIRCUIT; SEE PER CURIAM</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="/opinions/2008/08KH1717.PC.pdf">2008-KH-1717 STATE EX REL. SANDRA K. CORDERO v. STATE OF LOUISIANA</a> (Parish of Jefferson)<br /><a href="/opinions/2008/08KH1717.jlw.dis.pdf">WEIMER, J., dissents and assigns reasons.</a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>TRANSFERRED TO THE DISTRICT COURT</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-1384 STATE EX REL. THOMAS MORGAN v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>WRIT APPLICATION GRANTED IN PART WITH ORDER; OTHERWISE DENIED</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0114 STATE EX REL. EXALTON GUIDRY, JR. v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Vermilion)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>PETITION FOR INTERIM SUSPENSION DENIED</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-B -2173 IN RE: CHRIS L. BOWMAN</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>DISCIPLINE ORDERED; SEE PER CURIAM</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="/opinions/2008/08B1472.PC.pdf">2008-B -1472 IN RE: GIDEON STANTON, III</a><br />VICTORY, J., dissents.</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>PETITION TO TRANSFER TO DISABILITY INACTIVE STATUS DENIED</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-OB-2220 IN RE: CONFIDENTIAL PARTY</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>APPLICATION FOR RECONSIDERATION DENIED</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1039 DAVID MELIUS AND BCI PROPERTIES, L.L.C. v. DAVID KEIFFER, THOMAS MILLINER AND MAPLE AREA RESIDENTS, INC. (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>WRIT APPLICATIONS NOT CONSIDERED</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -0905 WHITEWING AND WHITEWING OIL COMPANY, L.L.C, W.K. WHITEWING, KEN MILLER, TENKAY RESOURCES, INC., ART PASMAS, MARATHON ENERGY CORPORATION, ROBERT E. CRAWFORD, DONALD W. BOUCHER, CARLENE BOUCHER, DARREL SHIMSHACK, SHARON SHIMSHACK, POTTER RESOURCES, INC., WILLIAM E. LANG, RICHMAR INTERESTS, INC., VLM RESOURCES, INC., AMANDEL CORPORATION, EXAMA OIL COMPANY v. ENERGY DRILLING COMPANY (Parish of Lafourche)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-CP-1292 JAMES R. SKIPPER v. HONORABLE JUDGE LEO BOOTH, ET AL. (Parish of Concordia)<br /><a href="/opinions/2008/08CP1292.pfc.dis.pdf">CALOGERO, C.J., dissents and assigns reasons.</a><br /><a href="/opinions/2008/08CC1292.bjj.dis.pdf">JOHNSON, J., would consider the writ application on the merits and assigns reasons.</a></p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1418 GWENDOLYN HEBERT, WIFE OF MICHAEL RICARDO JOHNSON v. MICHAEL RICARDO JOHNSON (Parish of St. Bernard)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1436 NEW ORLEANS ELECTRICAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE v. ETHAN CRAWFORD (Parish of Jefferson)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1458 EARLINE YORK, ET AL. v. SUCCESSION OF JULIETTE B. POLK, ET AL. (Parish of Iberia)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>WRIT APPLICATIONS DENIED</strong></span>:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2007-KH-1973 STATE EX REL. EDDIE CHRISTOFF v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Jefferson)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2007-KP-2403 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. SECUNDINA GORDON (Parish of St. Tammany)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2007-KH-2420 STATE EX REL. LORENZA C. WIGGINS v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of E. Baton Rouge)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2007-KH-2491 STATE EX REL. HERNANDO CORTEZ HALEY v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Caddo)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0035 STATE EX REL. KEVIN EAGLIN v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0036 STATE EX REL. JERROD ORLANDO LEWIS v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Terrebonne)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0037 STATE EX REL. ROBERT TAYLOR v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Jefferson)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0042 STATE EX REL. PHILLIP MONROE v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Jefferson)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0043 STATE EX REL. ALVIN LANUS v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of E. Baton Rouge)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0057 STATE EX REL. PERCY M. TAYLOR v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Jefferson)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0058 STATE EX REL. THOMAS LEBEAU v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Jefferson)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0059 STATE EX REL. MICHAEL W. GIVENS, JR. v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Ouachita)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0110 STATE EX REL. RICHARD P. JONES v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of West Carroll)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0111 STATE EX REL. FRANKLIN D. JONES v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Calcasieu)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0112 STATE EX REL. EDGAR GREEN v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0113 STATE EX REL. KEYNEL KNIGHT v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0115 STATE EX REL. JOSEPH BENNETT v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0116 STATE EX REL. STANFORD STATON v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Sabine)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0125 STATE EX REL. FREDDIE LEE TAYLOR v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Winn)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0133 STATE EX REL. JOHNNY LAWRENCE v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Concordia)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0134 STATE EX REL. DERRICK WIX v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0135 STATE EX REL. EVIE JACKSON v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-CI-0136 STATE EX REL. DESHAWN BRANCH v. RICHARD STALDER, ET AL. (Parish of E. Baton Rouge)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KH-0137 STATE EX REL. VERNELL WOODARD v. STATE OF LOUISIANA (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KO-0467 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. THOMAS HEDGSPETH (Parish of Caddo)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-K -0494 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. CLARENCE WALKER NELSON (Parish of Natchitoches)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KO-0497 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. CLARENCE WALKER NELSON (Parish of Natchitoches)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KO-0569 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. DERRICK RICK (Parish of Tangipahoa)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KO-0601 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. JAMALL ARMSTEAD (Parish of Jefferson)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-K -0603 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. RANJI J. COTTON A/K/A RONNIE HAYES (Parish of Jefferson)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-K -0604 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. ARMONDO JAMES BRANTLEY (Parish of Caddo)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-K -0605 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. MELVIN CHARLES FORD (Parish of Caddo)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-K -0608 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. MAURICE J. ANDERSON (Parish of Livingston)<br />TRAYLOR, J., would grant.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KO-0617 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. JOSEPH SAVOIE (Parish of Lafayette)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-K -0637 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. GINO ZARI AND TERRI HEBERT (Parish of St. Tammany)<br />CALOGERO, C.J., recused.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KK-1027 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. MICHAEL HOWARD (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1151 MYRTIE J. SHANKS, JAMES R. PEABODY, F. S. AMBROSE AND HANEY E. AMBROSE, JR. v. EXXON CORPORATION, TXP OPERATING COMPANY AND C. T. CARDEN (Parish of E. Baton Rouge)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-CC-1160 CAJUN CONSTRUCTORS, INC. v. ECOPRODUCT SOLUTIONS, LP; ECOPRODUCT SOLUTIONS, GP, LLC; RICK BILLINGS; MIKE LARGEY; PRIEST RIVER, LTD; YANDELL ROGERS, JR.; YANDELL ROGERS, III; JOE SWINGLE; MATT WHITAKER; JIM HUGHES AND SYNCENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC. (Parish of Iberville)<br />CALOGERO, C.J., would grant.<br />TRAYLOR, J., would grant.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1184 DARIN SHANE PENDARVIS AND PENNY PENDARVIS v. LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. (Parish of Livingston)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-CC-1219 EARL JOHNSON, ET AL. v. PUBLIC BELT RAILROAD COMMISSION FOR THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, ET AL. (Parish of Orleans)<br />TRAYLOR, J., would grant.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1322 PAULINE SNELLING, ET AL. v. LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER-MONROE (Parish of Ouachita)<br />CALOGERO, C.J., would grant the writ.<br />JOHNSON, J., would grant the writ.<br />KNOLL, J., would grant the writ.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1357 JANE MARKS RICHARD v. LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD (Parish of Lafayette)<br />TRAYLOR, J., would grant.<br />KNOLL, J., would grant.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1405 WILLIAM E. MARTIN v. MARIE DECKER AND UNIVERSAL UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE COMPANY (Parish of Livingston)<br />TRAYLOR, J., would grant.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1416 CLECO POWER, LLC v. BEAUREGARD ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC., ET AL. (Parish of Vernon)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-CC-1417 ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRIES RECYCLING, INC. v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (Parish of E. Baton Rouge)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KK-1421 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. JOSEPH P. JOHNSON (Parish of Iberia)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KK-1425 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. RICKY ESCHLIMAN (Parish of Orleans)<br />KNOLL, J., concurs. Applicant's issues not properly raised in this Court.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1437 JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN v. THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KK-1457 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. KEVIN GASAWAY (Parish of Calcasieu)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-CC-1460 THEODORE GUILLORY, JR., ET AL. v. KENNETH LEE, ET AL. (Parish of St. Landry)<br />TRAYLOR, J., would grant.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1461 LORI N. SCHMOLKE v. ROBERT H. SCHMOLKE</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1462 FIELDING CHADWICK PHILLIPS, KAY PHILLIPS ELLIOTT, PAMELA PHILLIPS SULZER , JAMES GARNET GENIUS, ALBERT SIDNEY GENIUS, MARGARET ANITA GENIUS, LAURIE GENIUS CHAPPLE AND JAMES RODNEY GENIUS v. HERBERT R. WITTY C/W SUCCESSION OF NITA MARIE LEBEAU (Parish of Pointe Coupee)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-CC-1466 JOHN DOE AND JOAN DOE, INDIVIDUALLY, AND ON BEHALF OF THEIR MINOR CHILD, JANE DOE v. CRESENT CITY BAPTIST CHURCH (Parish of Jefferson)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-CC-1467 ERIC O'NEAL D/B/A TOYS, TOYS & MO' TOYS v. STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, BOB NOWLIN, ET AL. (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-KK-1473 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. GLENN HUNTER (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1476 CHARLES B. BRIDGES, ET UX. v. THE CITY OF CARENCRO, ET AL. (Parish of Lafayette)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1477 ROGER LEWIS v. CITY OF SHREVEPORT AND ARTHUR YOUNG (Parish of Caddo)<br />VICTORY, J., would grant.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1478 PEAK PERFORMANCE PHYSICAL THERAPY & FITNESS, LLC v. HIBERNIA CORPORATION, REBECCA TASSIN AND KEITH TASSIN (Parish of E. Baton Rouge)<br />WEIMER, J., would grant.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1490 VICTOR MBARIKA v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE AND HELMUT SCHNEIDER (Parish of E. Baton Rouge)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1493 BONNIE ROBERSON CRITTON, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF LATOYIA D. ROBERSON v. STATE OF LOUISIANA, THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT (Parish of Lincoln)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1497 SUCCESSION OF DUFFY JOSEPH BREAUX, JR. (Parish of Lafourche)<br />WEIMER, J., recused.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1498 ELAINE DAVIS v. CECIL PICARD AND LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (Parish of E. Baton Rouge)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1499 ANTOINETTE ANDERSON TURNER v. THE LAW FIRM OF WOLFF & WOLFF, ROBERT J. LANDRY, IN HIS CAPACITY AS STAFF ATTORNEY FOR THE LAW FIRM OF WOLFF & WOLFF, ANTOINE P. TURNER, DR. SYLVESTER J. DILEO (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1503 LINDA RHOLDON CLEMENT AND ALAN J. RHOLDON, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ESTATE OF LORI ANN RHOLDON v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, LEIA T. OUBRE, REGINA W. KHOURI, EDMOND J. OUBRE, JR., KYLE E. GRACE, REGINALD GRACE, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, SENTINEL INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD., ABC INSURANCE COMPANY, DEF INSURANCE COMPANY, AND GHI INSURANCE COMPANY (Parish of Iberville)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1505 ANIL RAJ v. SANDRA TOMASETTI (Parish of St. Tammany)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1506 SHELITA WINCHESTER GUILLION v. PATRICK ALBERT GUILLION, JR. (Parish of Orleans)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">2008-C -1615 ANIL RAJ v. SANDRA TOMASETTI (Parish of St. Tammany)</p><p> </p>