7 results for 'judge:"Wilder-Doomes"'.
J. Wilder-Doomes grants a request by an insurer of a 28-acre mixed-housing development, compelling a chemical manufacturer of a termiticide and mold spray to produce documentation related to its purchase of a product that it repackaged as “Mold-Care.” The manufacturer failed to satisfy its burden that it could properly withhold production of its “Master Repack Agreement” as confidential business information. The manufacturer is ordered to produce unredacted copies of the agreement to the insurer for its state-law product liability lawsuit against the Tennessee-based chemical company.
Court: USDC Middle District of Louisiana, Judge: Wilder-Doomes, Filed On: May 3, 2024, Case #: 3:21cv431, NOS: Property Damage Product Liability - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Property, Product Liability
J. Wilder-Doomes denies a request by the parish government of Baton Rouge to halt multiple civil rights suits alleging city police officers used a warehouse to strip-search and humiliate citizens during purported searches for illegal drugs. The parish has not established a stay of civil proceedings against officers of the street crimes unit at the so-called “BRAVE Cave” is warranted. No criminal charges have been filed and there is no information regarding the nature or extent of the overlap with any federal criminal investigation. However, the parish may re-urge its request for a stay, “if appropriate, as additional information develops.”
Court: USDC Middle District of Louisiana, Judge: Wilder-Doomes, Filed On: February 7, 2024, Case #: 23cv1313, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Emotional Distress, Police Misconduct
J. Wilder-Doomes grants a request by the owners of a paper mill, ordering a 20-year military veteran to complete the requested authorization to obtain his service medical records. The veteran was discharged with a 90 percent disability, which would have preexisted any physical or mental injuries he allegedly suffered as a contractor’s employee during an explosion at the plant in 2017. The military medical records are relevant, as the former employee claims to have suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from the paper mill blast.
Court: USDC Middle District of Louisiana, Judge: Wilder-Doomes, Filed On: November 27, 2023, Case #: 3:18cv613, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Health Care, Damages, Military
J. Wilder-Domes grants a request by an investment firm and orders Louisiana’s largest public retirement system to respond to discovery requests by a private foundation in Austria seeking evidence for a criminal investigation of the foundation’s alleged loss of hundreds of millions of dollars by fraudulent purchases. The Louisiana pension system was one of several passive investors in a private equity fund that indirectly owned an Austrian company where three named executives are accused of misappropriating corporate funds. The Austrian foundation has filed similar discovery requests related to the international criminal probe with other passive investors in the federal Southern District of New York and Wisconsin.
Court: USDC Middle District of Louisiana, Judge: Wilder-Doomes , Filed On: November 24, 2023, Case #: 3:23cv365, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, International Law, Securities
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J. Wilder-Doomes denies a request by an embattled Louisiana nursing home operator seeking to withdraw deposition statements made in August 2022 to a bank suing him for defaulting on substantial loans. The businessman unsuccessfully argued he has been mentally incompetent from pain and treatment with opioids since a major dental surgery in June 2021 and he has been unable to “concentrate or engage in a social conversation, much less a business communication.” The declarations by the businessman and his wife were contradicted by live testimony and lack credibility. His incompetency defense has been rejected in other pending suits. He also claims his attorney abandoned him.
Court: USDC Middle District of Louisiana, Judge: Wilder-Doomes, Filed On: July 11, 2023, Case #: 3:21cv680, NOS: Negotiable Instrument - Contract, Categories: Discovery, Banking / Lending