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LAFLEUR v. ENTERGY, INC.

No. 98-344.

737 So.2d 761 (1998)

Dwayne and Lynn LAFLEUR, Individually, and as Representatives of a Class of Those Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. ENTERGY, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 9, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Baggett, Clayton Arthur Larsh Davis, Ernest C. Hunt, Jr., Lake Charles, Bernard Hugh McLaughlin, Jr., Hunter William Lundy, Robert C. McCall, James D. Cain, Jr., Jamie B. Bice, and Erin M. Alley, Lake Charles, for Dwayne and Lynn Lafleur, Indiv.

Kenneth Paul Carter, New Orleans, John B. Scofield, Lake Charles, and Eugene G. Taggart, New Orleans, for Energy, Inc. and Eduardo Melendreras.

Before DOUCET, C.J., and YELVERTON and AMY, JJ.

AMY, Judge.

This proposed class action is consolidated with three similar actions arising from a winter storm affecting southwest Louisiana in January 1997. The plaintiffs, residential and business property owners, allege damages as a result of power outages during the storm. Named as defendants in the class action are Entergy Corporation and its subsidiary, Entergy/Gulf States, Inc. The lower court denied class certification finding individual issues outweighed those...

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