M.J. FARMS, LTD. v. EXXON MOBIL CORP.

No. 2007-CA-2371.

998 So.2d 16 (2008)

M.J. FARMS, LTD. v. EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Order on Rehearing September 19, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Caldwell, Attorney General, Ryan Michael Seidemann, Megan Kathleen Terrell, Assistant Attorneys General; Liskow & Lewis, PLC, Katherine Miller Determan, Robert Beattie McNeal, Carey Lyon Menasco, Anundra Martin Dillon, Mark LeRay McNamara, New Orleans; Krebs, Farley & Pelleteri, Matthew Joseph Farley, Elizabeth S. Sconzert, Thomas Matthew Beh, New Orleans; Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Egan, Sara Emily Mouledoux, Loulan Joseph Pitre, Jr., New Orleans, Matthew Joseph Randazzo, III, Lafayette, Aimee Williams Hebert, Abaigeal Lynn Van Deerlin, Michelle Chavonne Purchner, New Orleans, for Appellant.

Dupuy & Didier, Marc Dupuy, Jr., Marksville; Bice, Palermo & Veron, John Michael Veron, Alonzo P. Wilson, Lake Charles; Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin, & Roberts, William Timothy Allen, III, Paul M. Adkins, Shreveport; Davidson, Meaux, Sonnier & McGelligott, James J. Davidson, III, Christopher Joseph Piasecki, Lafayette; Mangham & Associates, L.L.C., Michael R. Mangham, Lafayette; Smith, Taliaferrro, Purvis & Boothe, Virgil Russell Purvis, Jr., Jonesville; Wall & Bullington, Guy Earl Wall, Paul Edward Bullington, Jonathan Robert Cook, New Orleans, for Appellee.

Alex L. Andrus, III, and James T. Guglielmo, Opelousas, for Four Rivers Exploration, Inc., Amicus Curiae.

G. William Jarman and Linda Sarradet Akchin, Baton Rouge, for Louisiana Oil and Gas Association and Louisiana Med-Continent Oil and Gas Association, Amicus Curiae.

Thomas Martin McNamara, Patrick Wise Gray and Amy Elizabeth Allums Lee, for Shell Oil Co., Amicus Curiae.


KNOLL, Justice.*

This matter arises from the plaintiff's constitutional challenge to Act 312 of 2006 ("Act 312"), a legislative enactment related to litigation claiming environmental damages arising from oilfield operations. The case is before us on direct appeal from a judgment by the district court declaring 2006 La. Acts 312, unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated La. Const. art. V, § 16 (divestiture of the district courts...

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