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FAULK v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 2014-CQ-1598.

172 So.3d 1034 (2015)

R.T. FAULK, III; Corey Farms, L.L.C.; Faulk Farms, Incorporated; Joanne Hodges; River Valley Properties; McHenry Farms, L.L.C.; Sherman Shaw; T.P. Godwin; William G. Nadler; McHenry Realty Partnership v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 30, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Latham & Watkins, LLP, Richard P. Bress (Pro Hac Vice), Andrew D. Prins (Pro Hac Vice), Devin M. O'Connor (Pro Hac Vice), Washington; Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, William Hector Howard, III , Alissa J. Allison , Kathlyn G. Perez , New Orleans; Chaffe McCall, LLP, Paul Lee Peyronnin , New Orleans; Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway, APLC, Samuel William Caverlee , James Richard Sterritt , Shreveport, for Appellant.

Louisiana Department of Justice, Hon. James D. Caldwell , Attorney General, Ryan Michael Seidemann , Baton Rouge, Steven Beauregard Jones ; Jones Walker, LLP, Richard Lewis McHenry ; McLeod Verlander , David E. Verlander, III , Monroe; McNew, King, Mills, Burch & Landry, LLP, Brady Dean King, II , Monroe; Nelson, Zentner, Sartor & Snellings, LLC, Thomas G. Zentner, Jr., Monroe, for Appellee.

We accepted the certified question presented to this court by the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, in Faulk v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 576 Fed.Appx. 345 (5th Cir.2014) (per curiam).1 The question posed by the Fifth Circuit is: "Whether the application of LA.REV.STAT. § 48...

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