¶1Granted. Instead of requiring an oath, the trial judge may permit the use of the following: "I, _______, do hereby declare that the facts I am about to give are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, accurate, correct and complete."
486 So. 2d 745
Docket No. 86-CD-0662.
Staton v. Fought
Bryan R. STATON and Phyllis P. Staton v. Don FOUGHT, Ernest Freyou, Al Guidry and Tim Trahan.
Decided April 18, 1986.
Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1986-04-18
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
“I, [Betty Ann Ferguson], do hereby declare that the facts I am about to give are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, accurate, correct, and complete.”
quoted by 3 later decisions, including Ferguson v. Commissioner, Betty Ann Ferguson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1986-04-18
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2002
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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