Belle Co. v. State ex rel. Department of Environmental Quality

[2This matter involves a suit by Belle Company, LLC, (Belle) against the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), seeking declaratory judgment and damages for inverse condemnation pursuant to LSA-Const. art. I, sec. IV, based on the DEQ’s alleged wrongful refusal to grant Belle’s solid waste permit application through which Belle sought to operate a solid waste landfill on its property in Assumption Parish. The DEQ filed exceptions of lis pendens, lack of subject matter *849jurisdiction, no cause of action, and prescription. From the trial court’s judgment granting the exception of…