Legal Opinion
Bourgeois v. Weber Marine, LLC
District Court, M.D. Louisiana
Decided January 16, 2015No. Civil Action No. 3:14-cv-307-JWD-SCRPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
JOHN W. deGRAVELLES, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on the Motion for Summary Judgment Filed by All Defendants (R.Doc. 13) submitted by Weber Marine, LLC (“Weber”) and its insurer State National Insurance Company, Inc. (“State National”) (collectively, “Defendants”). The motion is opposed. (R.Doc. 18).
In sum, relying on Louisiana law, Defendants argue that Plaintiffs’ claims have prescribed because Plaintiffs filed suit in an improper venue and because the Petition was not served on Defendants until roughly one week after the…
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