State v. Allen

11Writ granted. The state appealed the district court’s ruling setting aside two bond forfeiture judgments and a three-judge panel of the court of appeal reversed the district court with one dissent. Thereafter, the court of appeal declined to refer the matter for reargument before a panel of at least five judges. The commercial surety timely sought review from this Court.

La. Const, art. 5, § 8(B) requires that “in civil matters only, when a judgment of a district court or an administrative agency determination in a workers’ compensation claim is to be modified or reversed and one judge…