Tag: Second Circuit

• Workers' Compensation

  Course and Scope of Employment – Always Clocked In

  • February 3, 2016
  • By Stephen G. Collura of Associate, New Orleans

  Recently, the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeals determined that an employee was in the course and scope of her employment when she sustained injuries from a criminal assailant.   The employee, a home health caregiver, normally worked from 8 am until 5 pm. On the day of the incident, the employee accompanied a client […]

• Business Litigation

  Nonconforming Uses Of Residential Property

  • April 5, 2013
  • By Allen & Gooch

  In Tolmas v. Parish of Jefferson, 47,555 (La. App. 2 Cir. 2/20/13), — So.3d —, the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeals addressed how prior exceptions to the parish zoning regulations applied to subsequent landowners of a commercial property attempting to develop the property. In order for a subsequent landowner to take advantage of the exceptions […]

• Business Litigation

  LA Second Circuit Court Demands Support For Landowner’s Right Of Use

  • February 22, 2013
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  The Court in WRW Properties, LLC v. City of Shreveport, 47, 657 (La. App. 2 Cir. 1/16/13), 112 So.3d 279,  used strong language in protecting a property owner’s right of use. The Honorable Judge Drew opens by stating: “this case is about a city council arbitrarily preventing a property owner from using its property exactly as […]