149 So. 3d 957 - Roy v. Belt’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 785 So. 2d 779 - Clark v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. · Ledet v. Firemen's Insurance Co. · Ellzey v. EMPLOYERS MUT. LIABILITY INS. CO. · 958 So. 2d 771 - Lyons v. Dohman · 861 So. 2d 716 - Faust v. Greater Lakeside Corp.
Most-quoted passages
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“A. (1) An action ... is abandoned when the parties fail to take any step in its prosecution or defense in the trial court for a period of three years. ... [[Image here]] |a(3) This provision shall be operative without formal order, but, on ex parte motion of any party or other interested person by affidavit which provides that no step has been timely taken in the prosecution or defense of the action, the trial court shall enter a formal order of dismissal as of the date of its abandonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the death of Judge Polk [the trial judge] and subsequent issue concerning which judge had the authority to hear the case did not create a circumstance out of the plaintiffs’ control” and noting that the subsequent trial judge pointed out that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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