Daniels v. National Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford

REDMANN, Judge.

The core question in this case is whether confidentiality of juvenile case proceedings, La. C.J.P. 14 E,1 denies to a plaintiff in a wrongful death action a transcript of the juvenile adjudication hearing which arose out of the wrongful death and to which plaintiff was admitted by authority of C.J.P. 69, 2d paragraph.2

We answer that it does not. Because plaintiff was a “person who has a proper interest in the proceedings” within art. 69, he was properly admittable to the adjudication hearing. And, because art. 14 E only makes proceedings confidential “[ejxcept as provided in…