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SOMMER v. STATE, DEPT. OF TRANSP. DEVELOPMENT

No. 97-CA-1929.

758 So.2d 923 (2000)

Cheryl Ann Brown SOMMER v. STATE of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT, Mississippi River Bridge Authority, Randall Paisant, Thomas E. Short, Neil Wagoner, J.L. Wax, Webb Taylor, Alan Lavasseur, Avant & Falcon, A Law Corporation, Mark E. Falcon, A.B. Insurance.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Opinion Dissenting from Denial of Rehearing May 16, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Harvey, New Orleans, LA and Raymond C. Burkhart, Jr., New Orleans, LA and Catherine Leary, Westwego, LA, Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee.

Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General, Gary A. Cotogno, Special Assistant Attorney General, Pickering & Cotogno, A. P.L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Counsel for Defendants/Appellants.

(Court composed of Judge WILLIAM H. BYRNES, III, Judge CHARLES R. JONES, Judge MIRIAM G. WALTZER, Judge MOON LANDRIEU and Judge JAMES F. McKAY, III).

BYRNES, Judge.

The defendants appeal a judgment of January 30, 1997 that awarded Cheryl Ann Brown Sommer damages for the defendants' malicious defamation, interference with her employment and intentional infliction of mental suffering from the destruction of Ms. Sommer's career. The trial court also awarded Ms. Sommer damages for lost income, punitive damages, attorney's fees and interest. We affirm as amended.

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