COOPER v. LA. DEPT. OF PUBLIC WORKS

No. 03-1074.

870 So.2d 315 (2004)

Travis COOPER, et al. v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. Russell Purvis, Jr., Smith, Taliaferro, Purvis & Boothe, Jonesville, LA, for Plaintiffs/Appellees, Travis Cooper, et al.

Julie Mobley Lafargue, Abrams & Lafargue, Shreveport, LA, for Defendant/Appellant, State of Louisiana, Department of Transportation and Development (formerly Louisiana Department of Public Works).

Court composed of BILLIE COLOMBARO WOODARD, ELIZABETH A. PICKETT, and ARTHUR J. PLANCHARD, Judges.


WOODARD, Judge.

The State of Louisiana, through the Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), formerly the Louisiana Department of Public Works, asserts that the trial court should have denied the Plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment because the Plaintiffs do not have a right of action against it for the permanent flooding of portions of their lands which the construction of a series of locks and dams, along the Ouachita and Black Rivers, caused...

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