Reese v. State, Department of Public Safety & Corrections

| .GUIDRY, J.

In this wrongful death and survival action, plaintiff, Donald Reese, appeals the trial court’s judgment granting defendant’s, State of Louisiana, Department of Public Safety and Corrections (State), peremptory exception raising the objection of no right of action. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On April 30, 2000, James Williams Jr. died while serving as an inmate at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Thereafter, on April 4, 2001, Donald Reese and Verna Nabonne, on behalf of her minor child, James Nabonne, filed a petition for damages,…