Theresa Fisher v. Steven Harter, Jr., Et Al.
Also decided on this docket: La., December 12, 2024; La., October 25, 2024
Theresa Fisher v. Steven Harter, Jr., Et Al., No. 2024-CD-00359 (La. June 25, 2024).
Opinion text
Supreme Court of Louisiana
June 25, 2024
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
THERESA FISHER
VS.
STEVEN HARTER, JR., ET AL.
No. 2024-CD-00359
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N RE: Theresa Fisher - Applicant Plaintiff; Applying For Supervisory Writ, Parish
of Caddo, 1st Judicial District Court Number(s) 615,908, Court of Appeal, Second
Circuit, Number(s) 55,853-CW;
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June 25, 2024
Writ application granted - see briefing notice and Order.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA
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CHIEF JUSTICE
JOHN L. WEIMER
JUSTICES
wlLLIAM J, CRAIN
SCOTT J, CRICHTON
JAI\4ES T, GENOVESE
JAY B, I,,ICCALLI.]M
JEFFERSON HUGHES
PIPER D, GBIFFIN
First Districr
Second Disrrict
Third District
Fourth District
Fifth Disnict
Seventh District
VERONICA O, KOCLANES
CLERK OF COURT
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NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130.8102
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2024-CD-00359 THERESA FISHER VS. STEVEN HARTER. JR.. ET AL.
NOTE: FOR BRIEFING PURPOSES WRIT GRANTED June 25,2024
MEMORANDUM TO COUNSEL IN CAPTIONED CASE
Please be advised that the above-captioned matter will be set for oral argument on this
Couft's next available docket. A copy of the official docket with the specific date and time
of oral argument will be mailed out.
Please note Section 8 of Rule VII of the Rules of this Cou rt provides that the applicant
Sixth District
or relator. as the case mav be. must file their briefs on or before July 22.2024t and the
respondent on or before Ausust 9,2024.
Oral argument will be waived if brief is untimely filed. Briefs submitted on legal sized paper
should be fastened at the top. All briefs should be backed with the customary "Blueback" or
other flexible material. In criminal proceedings, the court directs that counsel must file a
brief. Failure to do so may subject counsel to a penalty of contempt of Court.
It is further provided in Rule VII, Section 9 that briefs sent through the mail shall be deerned
timely filed if mailed on or before the due date. If the brief is received by mail on the first
legal day following the expiration ofthe deiay, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that it
was timely filed. In all cases where the presumption does not apply, the timeliness of the
mailing shall be shown only by an official United States postmark or by official receipt or
certificate from the United States Postal Service, or bona fide commerciai mail services such
as Federal Express or United Parcel Service, made at the time ofmailing which indicates the
date thereof. Any other date stamp, such as a private commercial mail meter stamp, or label
from an Automated Postal Center, shall not be used to establish timeliness.
Briefs forwarded by private delivery or courier service shall be deemed timely filed only if
received by the clerk on or before the last day ofthe delay for filing.
Regards,
Ryan Chan
Deputy Clerk
RC:RC
ccs: All Counsel
Hon, Chris Victory
Hon. Mike Spence
Hon. Robin Norman Jones
lst Judicial District Cout: 6i5,908
Court of Appeal, Second Circuit: 55,853-CW
06/25/24
SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 2024-CD-00359
THERESA FISHER
VERSUS
STEVEN HARTER, JR., ET AL.
On Supcrvisory and/or Remedial Writs
First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo, No. 615,908;
Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, No. 55,853-CW.
And, whereas, thc Court has this date, pursuant to Article 5, Section 5, of thc
Constitution of Louisiana, made and issued the following order, to wit "lt is
ordered that the writ of rcview issue; that the District Court and the Court of
be notificd."
Now, therefore, the said District Court and the Court of Appeal is hereby
commanded, in thc namc of the State of Louisiana and of this Honorable Court, to
send up forthwith to this Court, in accordance with Suprcme Court Rule 1, at the
City of New Orleans, the record in duplicate of the above-entitled case.
Veronica O. Koclanes
Clerk of Court
eputy Clerk of Court
Appeal send up the record in Duplicate of the case; and that counsel for all partics
Witness the Honorable Justices of the
Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, on
this 25th day of June, in the year of our
Lord, Two Thousand Twenty-Four.