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2023 Master Plan Brings Updates to Coastal Research and Projects

The Energy Law

The most recent draft is the fourth update since it was first adopted by the Louisiana Legislature in 2007 following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. [1] The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) recently released its 2023 draft Coastal Master Plan , which is required by law to be updated every six years.

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Fifth Circuit Allows Landowners’ Tort Claim Against Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to Move Forward

The Energy Law

A watchful eye will now be on Louisiana Courts for decisions on whether a tort cause of action can be brought against LDEQ, and whether it owes a duty under the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act public notification regulation. [1] 1] D & J Invs. of Cenla, L.L.C. at *5 (citing Rico v. Flores , 481 F.3d 3d 234, 239 (5th Cir. I, § 109. [3]

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Louisiana First Circuit Reaffirms Prescription and Subsequent Purchaser Principles

The Energy Law

Although Lexington Land had these assessments in 2005, it did not file suit until December 2007 following a pipeline rupture on the property. In 2009, the trial court granted Chevron’s motion for partial summary judgment to dismiss all claims for pre-2005 damage to the property under the subsequent purchaser doctrine.

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Louisiana First Circuit Reaffirms Prescription and Subsequent Purchaser Principles

The Energy Law

Although Lexington Land had these assessments in 2005, it did not file suit until December 2007 following a pipeline rupture on the property. In 2009, the trial court granted Chevron’s motion for partial summary judgment to dismiss all claims for pre-2005 damage to the property under the subsequent purchaser doctrine.

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Louisiana First Circuit Reaffirms Prescription and Subsequent Purchaser Principles

The Energy Law

Although Lexington Land had these assessments in 2005, it did not file suit until December 2007 following a pipeline rupture on the property. In 2009, the trial court granted Chevron’s motion for partial summary judgment to dismiss all claims for pre-2005 damage to the property under the subsequent purchaser doctrine.

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Contra Non Not Applicable: Louisiana Appellate Court Refuses to Find Exception to Running of Prescription

The Energy Law

However, because suit was not filed until March of 2009, and the petition alleged that the boom had been destroyed in November 2007, Bollinger filed an exception of prescription, arguing that the one year prescriptive period for the wrongful conversion claim had passed and plaintiff’s claim was now time-barred on the face of the petition.

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The Future of Carbon Capture and Sequestration

The Energy Law

585, 589 (2007). [3] Mitchell Shier, The Legal Framework for Carbon Capture and Storage in Alberta, 45 ALTA.

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