Cassie Angelle v. Lafayette Consolidated Government and Brandon Dugas

NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION

STATE OF LOUISIANA
COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT

21-756 consolidated with 21-791

CASSIE ANGELLE

VERSUS

LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT

AND BRANDON DUGAS

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APPEAL FROM THE
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
PARISH OF LAFAYETTE, NO. 20196687 E
HONORABLE MICHELLE M. BREAUX, DISTRICT JUDGE

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SHARON DARVILLE WILSON
JUDGE

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Court composed of John E. Conery, Van H. Kyzar, and Sharon Darville Wilson,
Judges.

WRIT CONSOLIDATED
WITH APPEAL.

Katherine A Theunissen
MAHTOOK & LAFLEUR, L.L.C.
P. O. Box 3089
Lafayette, LA 70502
(337) 266-2189
COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT:
Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government
Brandon Dugas

Donovan J. O’Pry, II
John P. Barron
John M. Piccione
O’PRY LAW FIRM
2014 W. Pinhook Road, Suite 507
Lafayette, LA 70508
(337) 415-0007
COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT:
Cassie Angelle

Leah M. Penny
CASLER, BORDELON, LAWLER & GELDER
4000 South Sherwood Forest Boulevard, Suite 303
Baton Rouge, LA 70816
(337) 230-5532
COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT:
Cassie Angelle
Progressive Paloverde InsuranceCompany

WILSON, Judge.

Defendants, Officer Brandon Dugas and his employer Lafayette

Consolidated Government (LCG), filed a supervisory writ in this matter seeking

review of the trial court’s ruling granting the motion for partial summary judgment

filed by Plaintiffs, Cassie Angelle and her automobile insurer Progressive Paloverde

Insurance Company (Progressive) and finding Defendants solely at fault for collision

with Ms. Angelle. Thereafter, Defendants appealed a contemporaneous judgment

of the trial court finding Defendants solely at fault for the collision and granting the

Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment. We granted the writ application for the

limited purpose of ordering the consolidation of the writ with the appeal. We affirm

the trial court’s ruling on the motion for partial summary judgment for the reasons

expressed in the opinion rendered in 21-791.

WRIT CONSOLIDATED WITH APPEAL.

THIS OPINION IS NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION.
Rule 2-16.3 Uniform Rules, Courts of Appeal.