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Louisiana
Current Judges
Higginbotham
Higginbotham
Louisiana Court of Appeal, First Circuit
Biography pending scraper ingestion.
Judicial record
427 opinions
where Higginbotham sat on the panel,
spanning 2012–2020.
1
Majority authored
426
Joined majority
By court
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
426
La.
1
By disposition
Other
257
Affirmed
34
Reversed
13
Mixed
11
Denied
4
Dismissed
3
Remanded
3
Vacated
3
Panel votes per year
How Higginbotham's panel-seat count has shifted year by year.
Overlaid with Whipple for comparison
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0
80
160
240
320
400
1992
1997
2002
2007
2012
2017
2022
2012: 1 vote — Higginbotham
2017: 1 vote — Higginbotham
2019: 170 votes — Higginbotham
2020: 255 votes — Higginbotham
1992: 46 votes — Whipple
1993: 64 votes — Whipple
1994: 65 votes — Whipple
1995: 54 votes — Whipple
1996: 40 votes — Whipple
1997: 46 votes — Whipple
1998: 45 votes — Whipple
1999: 2 votes — Whipple
2000: 2 votes — Whipple
2001: 3 votes — Whipple
2002: 3 votes — Whipple
2003: 1 vote — Whipple
2004: 2 votes — Whipple
2005: 1 vote — Whipple
2006: 2 votes — Whipple
2007: 35 votes — Whipple
2008: 36 votes — Whipple
2009: 8 votes — Whipple
2010: 4 votes — Whipple
2011: 1 vote — Whipple
2017: 1 vote — Whipple
2018: 1 vote — Whipple
2019: 107 votes — Whipple
2020: 313 votes — Whipple
2021: 355 votes — Whipple
2022: 251 votes — Whipple
Most-frequent co-panelists
Judges who appeared on the same opinions. aligned = same bucket (both majority, both dissent); partial = concurred in result but wrote separately; split = the meaningful disagreement (majority vs dissent).
Recent opinions
15 most recent opinions where Higginbotham sat on the panel.
Docket
Court
Filed
Disposition
Case
2020KA0259
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-30
Reversed
State Of Louisiana v. Aaron Wayne Bush
2020CW1117
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-30
Writ denied
Betty Matthews v. Nationwide Agribusiness Insurance Company, Woerner Landscape …
2020CW1124
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-30
Writ granted
Yvette David Pacaccio, Individually and as agent for Brendan Joseph David v. St…
2020CW0836
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-14
Writ granted in part; denied in part
Ascension Parish Government and Kenneth Matassa v. Berkley Insurance Company an…
2020CA0040
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-10
Reversed and remanded
Advanced Leveling & Concrete Solutions v. The Lathan Company, Inc.
2020CA0197
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-10
Reversed and remanded
Janice Marks v. William Schultz and Lisa Schultz Individually and William Schul…
2019CA1614
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-10
Affirmed
Donna Bell v. SGS Petroleum Service Corp.
2020CA0222
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-10
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Janice Marlene Kosak and Janice Ashley Chaisson v. Louisiana Farm Bureau Casual…
2020CW1090
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-08
Writ denied
Alice Garrett v. Department of Children and Family Services, Marlstone Properti…
2020CW0941
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-07
Writ not considered
ARS International, LLC v. Patrick Williams
2020CW0979, 2020CW0103
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-07
Writ granted
Donna Boudreaux, wife of and Curtis Boudreaux v. National Union Fire Insurance …
2020CW0924, 2020CW0943
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-07
Writ denied
Edna Cloninger, Individually and on behalf of the Estate of Thomas Cloninger, a…
2020CW1078
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-07
Stay denied; writ denied
Gustave J. LaBarre, Jr. v. Liberty Insurance Underwriters, Inc. and Barrasso Us…
2020CW0925
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-07
Writ denied
Lynwood Vaughn Jr. v. Cynthia Bercaw, William Harrell Arata, and Ann Gray Arata
2020CW0898
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir.
2020-12-07
Writ denied
Pensri Davison v. Carl T. Ross and Safeco Insurance Company of Oregon