Lehmann v. GE Global Insurance Holding Corp.

DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Sherri Lehmann was injured when the car she was driving collided with a dump truck being operated by an employee of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana (“the Parish”). She filed her first suit in a state court solely against the Parish and obtained a judgment in the amount of $784,607.42. She was unable to collect on the judgment, however, because neither the state nor the Parish appropriated funds for its payment. Article XII, section 10 of the 1974 Louisiana Constitution provides that a judgment against the state, a state agency, or a political…