CITY OF WALKER v. LA THROUGH DOT & DEVELOPMENT

No. 17-30768 Summary Calendar.

877 F.3d 563 (2017)

CITY OF WALKER; City of Denham Springs; Williamson Eye Center (APMC); Timothy John Kinchen; Shannon Farris Kinchen, Plaintiffs-Appellees v. State of LOUISIANA, THROUGH the DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT, Defendant-Appellee v. Gilchrist Construction Company, Incorporated; Boh Brothers Construction Company, L.L.C.; James Construction Group, L.L.C.; Modjeski & Masters, Incorporated; Gulf Engineers and Consultants, Incorporated; Barriere Construction Company, L.L.C.; G.E.C., Incorporated; GoTech, Incorporated; Geo Engineers, Incorporated; SJB Group, L.L.C.; Eustis Engineering, L.L.C., formerly known as Eustis Engineering Services, L.L.C., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed November 30, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua Michael Palmintier, Esq. , John Neale deGravelles, Esq. , Attorney, deGravelles, Palmintier, Holthaus & Fruge', L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, Joseph M. Bruno , Bruno & Bruno, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, Mitchell A. Toups , Weller, Green, Toups & Terrell, Beaumont, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Andrew D. Weinstock , David Joseph Bourgeois , Joseph G. Glass , Philip George Watson , Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois, Pfister & Weinstock, Metairie, LA, for Defendant-Appellant Gilchrist Construction Company, Incorporated.

James M. Garner, Esq. , Ashley Gremillion Coker, Esq. , Martha Y. Curtis, Esq. , Joshua Simon Force , Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Timothy William Hassinger, Esq. , Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, Mandeville, LA, Lawrence E. Marino , Oats & Marino, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Michael Robert Carson Riess, Esq. , Charles Bruce Colvin , Kingsmill Riess, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellant B oh Brothers Construction Company, L.L.C.

Murphy J. Foster, III, Esq. , John Thomas Andrishok , Thomas R. Temple, Breazeale , Sachse & Wilson, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellant James Construction Group, L.L.C.

Keith Joseph Bergeron , Brian Schaps , Deutsch Kerrigan, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellant Modjeski & Masters, Incorporated.

Albert Dale Clary , Brad M. Barback , Adrian G. Nadeau , Long Law Firm, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellants Gulf Engineers and Consultants, Incorporated, G.E.C., Incorporated, GoTech, Incorporated, SJB Group, L.L.C.

Gregory G. Gremillion , William Glenn Burns, Esq. , Gaudry, Ranson, Higgins & Gremillion, L.L.C., Gretna, LA, Thomas William Darling , Gaudry, Ranson, Higgins & Gremillion, L.L.C., Baton Rouge, LA for Defendant-Appellant Barriere Construction Company, L.L.C.

Steven Bernard Loeb , Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellants Geo Engineers, Incorporated, Eustis Engineering, L.L.C.

Before DENNIS, SOUTHWICK, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.


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