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HAWKINS v. MERIDIAN RESOURCE

Number 2016 CA 1545.

236 So.3d 610 (2017)

H.L. HAWKINS III and John C. Lovell, Jr. as Succession Representatives of the Succession of H.L. Hawkins, Jr., Hawkeye Energy, Inc., and H.L. Hawkins, Jr., Inc. v. The MERIDIAN RESOURCE AND EXPLORATION LLC and the Meridian Resource Corporation f/k/a Texas Meridian Resources Exploration, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Judgment Rendered: December 6, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe B. Norman , Kelly B. Becker , Joseph I. Giarrusso III , Katherine Seegers Roth , Jonathan Andrew Hunter , Tyler D. Trew , New Orleans, LA, Counsel for Plaintiffs/Appellants H.L. Hawkins III and John C. Lovell, Jr., as succession representatives of the Succession of H.L. Hawkins, Jr., Hawkeye Energy, Inc., and H.L. Hawkins, Jr., Inc.

Deborah B. Rouen , Francis V. Liantonio, Jr. , Raymond P. Ward , New Orleans, LA and Kellen J. Mathews , Baton Rouge, LA Counsel for Defendant/Appellee The Meridian Resource and Exploration LLC.

BEFORE: WHIPPLE, C.J., GUIDRY, McDONALD, WELCH, AND McCLENDON, JJ.

Plaintiffs appeal a judgment dismissing a portion of their claims against the defendants pursuant to the defendants' invocation of a choice of law provision, which the defendants first raised twelve years after the commencement of litigation between the parties. For the following reasons, we affirm.

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