Barkerding v. Whittaker

Judge Rosemary Ledet

This is a complex commercial litigation suit. In the various iterations of the petition,1 the plaintiff, Thomas Pike Barkerding, named over fifty defendants and asserted almost a dozen causes of action. At this juncture, only six defendants and four causes of action remain. Those six defendants can be divided into the following two groups:(i) Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, LLC ("Stone Pigman"); Scott Whittaker; and William Bishop (collectively, the "Stone Pigman Defendants"); and(ii) Cara Stone, LLP ("Cara Stone"); Graffagnini, A Law Corporation; and Mark Graffagnini…