CODE v. DEPARTMENT OF PUB. SAFETY AND CORR.

Nos. 2011 CA 1282, 2011 CW 0601.

103 So.3d 1118 (2012)

Nathaniel CODE, v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS and James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Department of Public Safety and Corrections in his individual and Official Capacity.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

October 24, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kristin Traicoff , Gary P. Clements , New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff/Defendant-In-Reconvention Appellee Nathaniel Code.

E. Wade Shows , Jeffrey K. Cody , Jacqueline B. Wilson , Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-In-Reconvention Appellant Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.

Kyla Blanchard-Romanach , Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-In-Reconvention Appellee James Dunn.

Kevin M. McDonough , William O. Reckler , Noreen A. Kelly Najah , New York, NY, for Defendant-In-Reconvention Appellee Cedric Jacobs.

Nicholas J. Trenticosta , New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-In-Reconvention Appellees Kevan Brumfield, Marcus Hamilton, Manuel Ortiz, Allen Robertson, John Wille, Winthrop Eaton & Michael Perry.

Thomas H.L. Selby , Colleen E. Maring , David A. Taylor , Washington, DC, for Defendant-In-Reconvention Appellee Robert Miller.

Michael Rubenstein , Houston, TX, for Defendant-In-Reconvention Appellee Jimmy Williams.

Avery Pardee , Andrew Lee , New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-In-Reconvention Appellee Willard Allen.

Elizabeth Cumming , Sarah Ottinger , Cecelia Trenticosta , New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-In-Reconvention Appellees Anthony Bell, Gregory Brown, Sanchez Brumfield, Terrance Carter, Clifford Deruise, Felton Dorsey, Dustin Dressner, Michael Garcia, Jessie Hoffman, Rogers Lacaze, Thao Lam, Michael Legrand, Chad Louviere, James Magee, Jesse Montejo, Lee Roy Odenbaugh, Anthony Scott, Larry Roy & Shedran Williams.

Soren Gislesson , Joseph Cain , New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-In-Reconvention Appellee Todd Wessinger.

Before PARRO, PETTIGREW, and McCLENDON, JJ.


PETTIGREW, J.

In this case, the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections ("DPSC") seeks review of portions of a March 15, 2011 judgment by the trial court that (1) sustains in part the exception raising the objection of prematurity filed by 84 death row inmates (referred to collectively as the "defendants-in-reconvention"), to the extent it requests a declaration that DPSC's lethal injection protocols1 are not "rules" under...

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