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<div><table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:justify;" width="100%"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td valign="top" width="63%">FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE</td><td valign="top" width="37%"><div align="right">NEWS RELEASE #048</div></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td valign="top">FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA</td><td valign="top">&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="nrbody"><style>.nrbody h1 { display:block; font-size:1em; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline; } .nrbody p { text-align:justify;}.nrdate { font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;} </style><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Opinions handed down on the <span class="nrdate">24th day of October, 2025</span> are as follows:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h1>BY Hughes, J.:</h1><p><a href="/opinions/2025/25-0078.CC.OPN.pdf">2025-CC-00078&nbsp;LANELL E. DAROUSE VS. P.J.'S COFFEE OF NEW ORLEANS, LLC AND NEW ORLEANS ROAST, LLC</a>&nbsp;(Parish of Orleans Civil)<br />AFFIRMED. SEE OPINION.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h1>BY McCallum, J.:</h1><p><a href="/opinions/2025/24-1564.C.OPN.pdf">2024-C-01564&nbsp;SEAN VAN BUREN VS. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY</a>&nbsp;(Parish of Caddo)<br />REVERSED AND REMANDED. SEE OPINION.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h1>BY Griffin, J.:</h1><p><a href="/opinions/2025/25-0024.OK.OPN.pdf">2025-OK-00024&nbsp;STATE OF LOUISIANA VS. DALE DWAYNE CRAIG</a>&nbsp;(Parish of East Baton Rouge)<br />REVERSED AND REMANDED TO THE COURT OF APPEAL. SEE OPINION.</p><p>Retired Judge John D.&nbsp;Crigler appointed Justice ad hoc, sitting for Guidry, J., recused.<br />Weimer, C.J., dissents and assigns reasons.<br />Crain, J., additionally concurs for the reasons assigned by Justice Cole.<br />McCallum, J., additionally concurs for the reasons assigned by Justice Cole.<br />Cole, J., additionally concurs and assigns reasons.<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h1>BY Guidry, J.:</h1><p><a href="/opinions/2025/24-1492.C.OPN.pdf">2024-C-01492&nbsp;DARLENE WARD PELLECER, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF CARLOS F. PELLECER, AND CYNTHIA PELLECER KEPPLER, LINDA PELLECER SEWARD, AND BONNIE PELLECER PEREZ VS. WERNER CO., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE, ET AL.</a>&nbsp;(Parish of Orleans Civil)<br />COURT OF APPEAL REVERSED, TRIAL COURT JUDGMENT VACATED, AND RENDERED. SEE OPINION.</p><p>Hughes, J., dissents and assigns reasons.<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="/opinions/2025/25-0151.C.OPN.pdf">2025-C-00151&nbsp;BELAIRE DEVELOPMENT &amp; CONSTRUCTION, LLC VS. SUCCESSION OF THEODORE SHELTON SR., ET AL.</a>&nbsp;(Parish of St. Martin)<br />AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART. SEE OPINION.</p><p>Crain, J., concurs.<br />McCallum, J., concurs in the result.<br />Griffin, J., dissents and assigns reasons.<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="/opinions/2025/25-0156.C.OPN.pdf">2025-C-00156&nbsp;BELAIRE DEVELOPMENT &amp; CONSTRUCTION, LLC VS. SUCCESSION OF THEODORE SHELTON SR., ET AL.</a>&nbsp;(Parish of St. Martin)<br />AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART. SEE OPINION.</p><p>Crain, J., concurs.<br />McCallum, J., concurs in the result.<br />Griffin, J., dissents and assigns reasons.<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h1>BY Cole, J.:</h1><p><a href="/opinions/2025/24-1565.C.OPN.pdf">2024-C-01565&nbsp;FIRST PAY, INC. VS. ELTON DUKES</a>&nbsp;(Parish of East Baton Rouge)<br />REVERSED; TRIAL COURT JUDGMENT REINSTATED. SEE OPINION.</p><p>Hughes, J., dissents and assigns reasons.<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="/opinions/2025/25-0879.O.OPN.pdf">2025-O-00879&nbsp;IN RE: JUDGE JENNIFER M. MEDLEY</a><br />SUSPENSION ORDERED. SEE OPINION.</p><p>Weimer, C.J., additionally concurs and assigns reasons.<br />Crain, J., concurs.<br />McCallum, J., concurs.<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h1>PER CURIAM:</h1><p><a href="/opinions/2025/24-0697.KO.OPN.pdf">2024-KO-00697&nbsp;STATE OF LOUISIANA VS. LEONIDAS LOWRY AKA "CHICO"</a>&nbsp;(Parish of Jefferson)<br />AFFIRMED. SEE PER CURIAM.</p><p>Weimer, C.J., dissents in part and concurs in part and assigns reasons.<br />Hughes, J., concurs and assigns reasons.<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p></div></div>
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