Opinion
No. 98-CC-2367
September 9, 1998
IN RE: Louisiana State of; Natural Resources Dept. of; — Defendant(s); Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial Writ; Parish of Plaquemines 25th Judicial District Court Div. "B" Number 38-266; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, Number 98CW-1661
The ruling of the court of appeal, denying the application as incomplete, is reversed. Relator is ordered to supplement the application within five days of this order, and the court of appeal is ordered to consider and dispose of the application on its merits.
CALOGERO, C.J. not on panel.
LEMMON, J. concurs. When a relator fails to attach pleadings to an application for supervisory writs, the court ordinarily should not simply deny the application on that basis, but should require a supplemental filing of the missing pleading or pleadings within a specified period of time.