BELLE COMPANY, LLC v. DEQ

No. 2008 CA 2382.

25 So.3d 847 (2009)

BELLE COMPANY, LLC v. STATE of Louisiana, through the DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, Assumption Parish, Mike McDaniel and Chuck Carr Brown.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied October 9, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross A. Brupbacher, Robert R. Broussard, Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Belle Company, LLC.

James P. Doré, Alan J. Berteau, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Assumption Parish Police Jury.

Stephen J. Oats, Patrick B. McIntire, Gordon Square, Lafayette, LA, Elliott Vega, Roger K. Ward Baton, Rouge, LA, for Defendants/Appellees, State of Louisiana, through the Department of Environmental Quality, Mike McDaniel, and Chuck Carr Brown.

Before CARTER, C.J., WHIPPLE and DOWNING, JJ.


WHIPPLE, J.

This matter involves a suit by Belle Company, LLC, (Belle) against the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), seeking declaratory judgment and damages for inverse condemnation pursuant to LSA-Const. art. I, sec. IV, based on the DEQ's alleged wrongful refusal to grant Belle's solid waste permit application through which Belle sought to operate a solid waste landfill on its property in Assumption Parish. The DEQ filed exceptions of lis pendens...

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