IN RE KATRINA CANAL BREACHES LITIGATION

No. 2010-CQ-1823.

63 So.3d 955 (2011)

In re KATRINA CANAL BREACHES LITIGATION.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 10, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Caldwell , Attorney General, Sallie Jones Sanders , James Trey Phillips , Stacie Lambert deBlieux , Stuart Kyle Duncan , for Plaintiffs.

Adams & Reeese, LLP, Deborah Bila Rouen , Christopher Albert D'Amour , Andrea Leigh Fannin , New Orleans, LA, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Matthew Aaron Woolf , New Orleans, LA, Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman & Sarver, LLC, Henry Minor Pipes, III , Stephen Lawrence Miles , Steven William Usdin , Judy Y. Barrasso , New Orleans, LA, Bernard, Cassisa, Elliott & Davis, Howard Bruce Kaplan , Metairie, LA, Christovich & Kearney, John Tilghman Culotta , Metairie, LA, Matthew Joseph Lindsay , Crull, Castaing & Lilly, Edward John Lilly , New Orleans, LA, DeRouen Law Firm, Patrick Dominic DeRouen , New Orleans, La, Degan, Blanchard & Nash, APLC, Sidney Wallis Degan, III , Julia A. Dietz , New Orleans, LA, Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois, Pfister & Weinstock, C. Michael Pfister, Jr. , Lawrence J. Duplass , Metairie, LA, Kelly Cambre Bogart , Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, APLC, Richard Edward King , New Orleans, LA, Gieger, Laborde & Laperouse, LLC, Robert Irwin Siegel , New Orleans, Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale, LLP, William Glenn Burns , Lauren Elizabeth Brisbi , Sean Patrick Mount , Dominic J. Ovella , John Elliott Unsworth, Jr. , New Orleans, LA, Huval, Veazey, Felder, Aertker & Renegar, LLC, Thomas Hebert Huval , Covington, LA, Johnson, Johnson, Barrios & Yacoubian, Neal John Favret , Alan John Yacoubian , Genevieve Kathleen Jacques , Jones Fussell, LLP, John R. Walker , Keogh, Cox & Wilson, LTD., John Powers Wolff, III , Krebs, Farley & Pelleteri, PLLC, Amy S. Malish , Maura Zivalich Pelleteri , Kristen Hipke Schorp , New Orleans, LA, Larzelere Picou Wells Simpson Lonero, LLC, Jay Michael Lonero , Christopher Raymond Pennison , Angie L. Arceneaux , Metairie, LA, Lobman, Carnahan, Batt, Angelle & Nader, Daniel Michael Redmann , New Orleans, LA, Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, Ralph Shelton Hubbard, III , Seth Andrew Schmeeckle , Anne Elizabeth Briard , Baton Rouge, LA, McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC, Gerard Evans Wimberly, Jr. , Baton Rouge, LA, Phelps Dunbar, LLP, Nora Boiling Bilbro , Jacqueline M. Brettner , Neil Charles Abramson , Marshall M. Redmon , Harry Allan Rosenberg , H. Alston Johnson, III , New Orleans, LA, Plauche Maselli Parkerson, LLP, Andrew L. Plauche; Jr. , James K. Ordeneaux , New Orleans, LA, Porteous, Hainkel & Johnson, LLP, Charles Louis Chassaignac, IV , Baton Rouge, LA, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, LLP, Milton Davis Ready , Thomas Robert Blum , New Orleans, LA, Stone Pigman Walther Whitmann, L.L.C., Mary L. Dumestre , Stephen G. Bullock , Wayne Joseph Lee , Lauren Godshall , New Orleans, LA, Talley, Anthony, Hughes & Knight, LLC, Rachel Patton Catalanotto , New Orleans, LA, The Law Offices of Gordon P. Serou, Jr., L.L.C., Gordon Paul Serou, Jr. , Walter D. Wilson , for Defendants.


JOHNSON, Justice.

We accepted the certified question presented to this Court by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, 613 F.3d 504 (5th Cir.2010).1 The question presented is "Does an anti-assignment clause in a homeowner's insurance policy, which by its plain terms purports to bar any assignment of...

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