LEVERT v. U. OF ILL. AT URBANA/CHAMPAIGN

No. 2002 CA 2679, 2002 CA 2680.

857 So.2d 611 (2003)

Martin LEVERT v. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA/CHAMPAIGN Through the BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Julie Lewis, Sidney Evans, Robert Roussel, Jr., David Thomas, Marshaun Bacon and Timothy Burke, Each Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

September 26, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Lofaso, Baton Rouge, Patrick Pendley, Chris Coffin, Plaquemine, Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellant Martin Levert, et al. Rusty Landeche, et al.

J. Wendell Clark, Amy Lambert, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendant/Appellee Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

Before: WHIPPLE, KUHN, and McDONALD, JJ.


KUHN, J.

Pursuant to these consolidated appeals, we review a judgment in which the trial court determined that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to resolve a dispute. The trial court also implicitly granted the defendant's motion to dismiss by transferring plaintiffs' suit to our sister state of Illinois. In one of the appeals, we conclude that the appeal was taken from an invalid judgment and that we have no jurisdiction to review it. In the other appeal, we...

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