Nizamutdinova v. Fraternity

Full title: FARIDA SHAVKATOVA NIZAMUTDINOVA, THROUGH HER LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE RUPINDER…

Court: STATE OF LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT

Date published: Oct 2, 2019

280 So. 3d 1001 (La. Ct. App. 2019)

280 So. 3d 1001

280 So. 3d 1002

Opinion

19-82

10-02-2019

Farida Shavkatova NIZAMUTDINOVA, THROUGH her Legal Representative Rupinder Jeet SINGH v. KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY, et al.

Thomas Reginald Hightower, Jr., Patrick Wade Kee, P. O. Drawer 51288, Lafayette, LA 70505, Telephone: (337) 233-0555, COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellee – Camp Sledge as Agent for Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Camp Sledge Travis Q. Besline, Mickey Stephens deLaup, Mickey S. deLaup, APLC, 2701 Metairie Road, Metairie, LA 70001, Telephone: (504) 828-2277, COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellee – Manny Duhon as agent for Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Manny Duhon Bruce David Beach, Keith Saverio Giardina, Law Offices of Keith S. Giardina, 9100 Bluebonnet Centre – Suite 300, Baton Rouge, LA 70809, Telephone: (225) 293-7272, COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellee – Alex Frederick as Agent for Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Alex Frederick Melvin Alan Eiden, Rabalais & Hebert, LLC, 701 Robley Drive – Suite 210, Lafayette, LA 70503, Telephone: (337) 981-0309, COUNSEL FOR: Defendants/Appellees – Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Kappa Sigma Fraternity-Epsilon-Chi Housing Corp., Kappa Sigma Fraternity-Epsilon-Chi Chapter, Kappa Sigma Frat and Kappa Sigma Frat-Epsilon-Chi Chapter, and Kappa Sigma Frat-Epsilon-Chi Housing Corp. J. Neale deGravelles, Benjamin B. Treuting, deGravelles, Palmintier, LLP, 618 Main Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70801, Telephone: (225) 344-3735, COUNSEL FOR: Plaintiff/Appellant – Farida Shavkatova Nizamutdinova, Through Her Legal Representative Rupinder Jeet Singh Douglas E. Fierberg, Jonathon N. Fazzola, Fierberg Nat'l Law Group, PLLC, 161 East Front Street – #200, Traverse City, MI 49684, Telephone: (231) 933-0180, COUNSEL FOR: Plaintiff/Appellant – Farida Shavkatova Nizamutdinova, Through Her Legal Representative Rupinder Jeet Singh Lauren Begneaud, Caffery, Oubre, Campbell & Garrison, L.L.P., 100 East Vermillion Street – Suite 201, Lafayette, LA 70501, Telephone: (337) 232-6581, COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellee – Imaan Ouedrago, Agent for Kappa Sigma and Imaan Ouedrago

THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge.

Thomas Reginald Hightower, Jr., Patrick Wade Kee, P. O. Drawer 51288, Lafayette, LA 70505, Telephone: (337) 233-0555, COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellee – Camp Sledge as Agent for Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Camp Sledge

Travis Q. Besline, Mickey Stephens deLaup, Mickey S. deLaup, APLC, 2701 Metairie Road, Metairie, LA 70001, Telephone: (504) 828-2277, COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellee – Manny Duhon as agent for Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Manny Duhon

Bruce David Beach, Keith Saverio Giardina, Law Offices of Keith S. Giardina, 9100 Bluebonnet Centre – Suite 300, Baton Rouge, LA 70809, Telephone: (225) 293-7272, COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellee – Alex Frederick as Agent for Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Alex Frederick

Melvin Alan Eiden, Rabalais & Hebert, LLC, 701 Robley Drive – Suite 210, Lafayette, LA 70503, Telephone: (337) 981-0309, COUNSEL FOR: Defendants/Appellees – Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Kappa Sigma Fraternity-Epsilon-Chi Housing Corp., Kappa Sigma Fraternity-Epsilon-Chi Chapter, Kappa Sigma Frat and Kappa Sigma Frat-Epsilon-Chi Chapter, and Kappa Sigma Frat-Epsilon-Chi Housing Corp.

J. Neale deGravelles, Benjamin B. Treuting, deGravelles, Palmintier, LLP, 618 Main Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70801, Telephone: (225) 344-3735, COUNSEL FOR: Plaintiff/Appellant – Farida Shavkatova Nizamutdinova, Through Her Legal Representative Rupinder Jeet Singh

Douglas E. Fierberg, Jonathon N. Fazzola, Fierberg Nat'l Law Group, PLLC, 161 East Front Street – #200, Traverse City, MI 49684, Telephone: (231) 933-0180, COUNSEL FOR: Plaintiff/Appellant – Farida Shavkatova Nizamutdinova, Through Her Legal Representative Rupinder Jeet Singh

Lauren Begneaud, Caffery, Oubre, Campbell & Garrison, L.L.P., 100 East Vermillion Street – Suite 201, Lafayette, LA 70501, Telephone: (337) 232-6581, COUNSEL FOR: Defendant/Appellee – Imaan Ouedrago, Agent for Kappa Sigma and Imaan Ouedrago

Court composed of Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Chief Judge, Billy Howard Ezell, and John E. Conery, Judges.

THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge. For the reasons discussed in the companion case of Farida Shavkatova Nizamutdinova v. Kappa Sigma Fraternity, et al. , 18-886 (La.App. 3 Cir. 10/2/19), 280 So.3d 1003, 2019 WL 4852846, the judgment of the trial court is reversed and remanded. Costs of the appeal are assessed to defendant/appellee, Manny Duhon.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.