Legal Opinion
White v. Beauregard Memorial Hosp.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 14, 2002No. 2002-C-0902PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
821 So.2d 481 (2002)
Teresa Lewis WHITE
v.
BEAUREGARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, et al.
No. 2002-C-0902.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
June 14, 2002.
2Per curiam
GRANTED. In Underwood v. Lane Memorial Hospital, 97-1997, at p. 5 (La.7/8/98), 714 So.2d 715, 718, we held that the use of the word "shall" in La.Rev. Stat. 13:5104(B) "indicates a legislative intent that a single political subdivision can be sued only in one of the two specified parishes and that no other exceptions are applicable." The court of appeal therefore erred in applying La.Code Civ. Proc. art. 73 to this case. Accordingly, the judgments of the trial…
3Cases cited2 opinions
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