Corbin v. Louisiana Department of Highways

_JjThis matter comes before the court from our grant of the state’s supervisory writ application filed in the Fourth Judicial District Court, Ouachita Parish, the Honorable Alvin Sharp presiding.

The state Attorney General’s office filed a motion for involuntary dismissal of the plaintiffs original petition filed on December 9, 2005, for failure to request service of citation within the 90-day prescriptive period required under La. R.S. 13:5107(D). After a contradictory hearing on May 27, 2009, the trial court denied the motion. We granted a writ of review to determine whether the trial court…