ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING PER CURIAM * This disciplinary matter arises from formal charges filed by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel ("ODC") against respondent, C. Mignonne Griffing, an attorney licensed to practice law in Louisiana. UNDERLYING FACTS Since 1990, respondent has been employed as an Assistant United States Attorney ("AUSA") for the Western District of Louisiana, Shreveport Division. At all times relevant herein, respondent was primarily assigned to prosecute...
ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING PER CURIAM This disciplinary matter arises from formal charges filed by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel ("ODC") against respondent, Adam Anthony Abdalla, an attorney licensed to practice law in Louisiana but currently on interim suspension pursuant to a joint petition filed by the parties in October 2014. In re: Abdalla, 14-2142 (La. 10/22/14), 149 So.3d 1222 . UNDERLYING FACTS Respondent was formerly employed by the Lafayette law firm of Andrus,...
HUGHES , J. This case involves an alleged "agreement not to prosecute," under which the defense claimed that in exchange for the defense providing the names of witnesses who would testify before the grand jury, the sharing of defense attorney work product, and the waiving of the spousal privilege as to the grand jury testimony of the defendant's wife, the prosecution agreed to abide by the grand jury indictment, whether manslaughter or second degree murder. When the grand jury returned a...
HUGHES , J. * This case presents the res nova issue of whether an attorney, representing an incarcerated felon, is subject to the provisions of La. R.S. 44:31.1, when making a public records request to obtain information relative to a potential post-conviction relief application. Both the district court and the appellate court ruled in the affirmative. For the following reasons, we reverse and remand with instructions. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY Attorney James E. Boren was retained by...
GENOVESE , JUSTICE We granted writs in this succession case to determine whether the testament at issue is valid under Louisiana law, where the first two pages of the testament were initialed rather than signed and where the testament contains no attestation clause which meets all of the requirements of La. Civ.Code art. 1577, nor any attestation by the notary beyond the general notarization. For the following reasons, we find the propounded testament materially deviated from the form...
PER CURIAM . We granted certiorari in this matter to consider whether the court of appeal erred in awarding plaintiff damages for bad faith breach of contract. For the reasons that follow, we find the court of appeal erred in awarding bad faith damages and therefore reverse this portion of the court of appeal's judgment. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY Plaintiff, Gerald Castille, was employed as a school bus driver for the St. Martin Parish School Board ("School Board") beginning in 1977....
