Richard B. Lay v. Donnie Bordelon
Richard B. Lay v. Donnie Bordelon, No. 2025 CW 0886 (La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. Dec. 11, 2025).
Opinion text
STATE OF LOUISIANA
COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT
RICHARD B. LAY NO. 2025 CW 0886
VERSUS
DONNIE BORDELON, ET AL DECEMBER 11, 2025
In Re: Richard B. Lay, applying for supervisory writs, 18th
Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberville, No. 83492.
BEFORE: THERIOT, BALFOUR, AND FIELDS, JJ.
WRIT GRANTED WITH ORDER. The claims asserted by plaintiff
herein are subject to the provisions of La. R.S. 15:1171(B) and
were incorrectly filed in the Eighteenth Judicial District Court.
While titled a motion to enforce, the nature of that motion is a
petition for judicial review following the exhaustion of
administrative remedies, and it should have been filed in the
Nineteenth Judicial District Court. La. R.S. 15:1177(A). The
district court’s September 11, 2025 order denying the motion to
enforce and the June 9, 2025 pauper order are vacated. The
district court is ordered to transfer the motion to enforce to the
Nineteenth Judicial District Court to be considered as a petition
for judicial review. see La. R.S. 15:1177(A) and La. R.S.
15:1184(B).