OPELOUSAS TRUST AUTHORITY v. CLECO CORP.

Nos. 11-348, 11-391, 11-392, 11-349.

85 So.3d 196 (2012)

OPELOUSAS TRUST AUTHORITY d/b/a Opelousas General Health System, et al. v. CLECO CORPORATION and Cleco Power, LLC. Deborah Mayo, et al. v. Cleco Corporation and Cleco Power, LLC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

February 15, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Joseph Arsenault , John Randall Whaley , Neblett, Beard & Arsenault, Robert Lawrence Beck, Jr. , Attorney at Law, Alexandria, LA, Jeffrey Michael Bassett , Patrick Craig Morrow, Sr. , James P. Ryan , Morrow & Morrow, Pride Justin Doran , Quincy L. Cawthorne , Doran Law Firm, Opelousas, LA, for Plaintiffs/Respondents, Opelousas Trust Authority, et al.

Richard Charles Stanley , W. Raley Alford, III , Stanley, Flanagan & Reuter, Alison N. deClouet , Stanley, Reuter, Ross, New Orleans, LA, Mark Douglas Pearce , Julia Elizabeth Callis , Attorneys at Law, Pineville, LA, for Defendants/Applicants, Cleco Power, LLC, Cleco Corporation.

Dennis Coleman Weber , Attorney at Law, Amanda H. Smith , La. Public Service Commission, Baton Rouge, LA, for Intervenor/Respondent, Louisiana Public Service Commission.

Kenneth Boagni , Dianne Marie Mayo , Anna Wise Cunningham Simmons , Attorneys at Law, Opelousas, LA, for Plaintiffs/Respondents, Deborah Mayo, et al.

Court composed of ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge, SYLVIA R. COOKS, and JOHN D. SAUNDERS, Judges.


SAUNDERS, Judge.

This case involves the consolidation of four writs into a single writ opinion. Two of the writs, numbers 11-348 and 11-349, were filed by Cleco Corporation and Cleco Power, LLC ("Cleco"). The other two writs, numbers 11-391 and 11-392, were filed by the Louisiana Public Service Commissioner ("the LPSC"), as intervenor in two separate class action suits which have been filed against Cleco by a putative class of utility ratepayers ("Ratepayers") in...

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