Background
Corey Landmark brought an action against Nurse Michelle Rodriquez, LPN, Dr. Paul Toce, and the State of Louisiana through the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and Dixon Correctional Center. The matter was pending in the 20th Judicial District Court for East Feliciana Parish under docket number 46939.
The State, through the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, and Dr. Toce applied to the Louisiana Court of Appeal, First Circuit, for supervisory writs. Their counsel later advised the appellate court that the case had concluded and requested withdrawal of the writ application.
The Court’s Holding
The First Circuit dismissed the supervisory writ application in response to relators’ counsel’s request that it be withdrawn.
The court did not address the merits of the underlying action or decide any substantive legal issue. Its disposition rested solely on counsel’s representation that the case was concluded and the relators no longer wished to pursue writ review.
Key Takeaways
- The supervisory writ application was dismissed at the relators’ request.
- Counsel represented that the underlying case had concluded.
- The court issued no ruling on the merits of the parties’ claims or defenses.
Why It Matters
The disposition illustrates that a Louisiana appellate court may dismiss a supervisory writ application when the applicants withdraw it after the underlying case concludes. Because the court did not reach the merits, the ruling establishes no substantive precedent concerning the underlying claims.