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Case: 25-30541 Document: 72-1 Page: 1 Date Filed: 07/14/2026 United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit United States Court of Appeals ____________ Fifth Circuit FILED No. 25-30541 July 14, 2026

JAMES F. McKAY III, Judge. | )Following Hurricane Katrina, Melvin Burmaster filed a lawsuit against the Plaquemines Parish Government (PPG), seeking to recover damages caused by flooding on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish during and after the hurricane. Mr. Burmaster alleged that the flooding occurred because PPG failed to properly maintain hurricane protection levees. Mr. Burmaster later amended his lawsuit to seek clas

744 N.W.2d 900 (2007) 2008 WI App 4 Stan JOHNSON, Karla Thurow, Thomas McLaughlin, and Wisconsin Education Association Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Elizabeth BURMASTER, Defendant-Co-Appellant, Northern Ozaukee School District, Northern Ozaukee School District Board of Education, Jeffrey M. Lallensack, and Walter Clarke, K12 Inc., Defendants-Respondents,[†] Mark Gundrum And Mary Gundrum, And Their C

KLIEBERT, Chief Judge. This litigation by Mrs. Burmaster, individually and as natural tutrix of her minor children (hereafter “Burmasters”), plaintiff-appellee, arose from the death of Mr. Burmaster who was killed on April 23, 1977, when he fell from a three foot wide concrete bulkhead into a water-filled drainage pit and was drowned. The bulkhead and pit were located on premises owned and operated by the St. Charles Paris

720 N.W.2d 134 (2006) 2006 WI App 142 Bruce LARSON and Peer Larson, his minor son,[†] Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Elizabeth BURMASTER, Superintendent, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Karen Petric, Superintendent, Whitnall School District, Joel Eul, Principal, Whitnall High School, Nancy Sarnow, Chairman, Math Department, Whitnall High School and Aaron Bieniek, Math Instructor, Whitnall High School, Def

CHEHARDY, C.J. On appeal, Harold J. Brown, defendant herein, challenges the constitutionality of the police search of his automobile. For the following reasons, we affirm defendant's convictions; amend defendant's sentence on count one, and, affirm as amended; affirm the remainder of defendant's sentences; and remand for correction of the Uniform Commitment Order. Facts and Procedural History

Mr. Justice Prewitt delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a controversy over the licensing and operation of a liquor store in Oak Ridge in Anderson County. The cause was tried on hill and answer and the Chancellor found in favor of the defendants Burmaster and others. The complainant commissioners have appealed. The ultimate question is whether the complainant commissioners have the fin

MEMORANDUM OPINION ROBERT F. COLLINS, District Judge. Plaintiff, Henry T. Dart, is a duly qualified candidate in the February 6, 1982 election for the District B seat of the New Orleans City Council and is a member of the Libertarian Party of Louisiana, also a plaintiff in this action. The plaintiffs allege that LSA-R.S. 18:441, 551(D), 551(E) violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United Stat

126 So.2d 173 (1960) Bessie BROWN v. PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE et al No. 5142. Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit. December 19, 1960. Rehearing Denied January 30, 1961. Certiorari Denied March 3, 1961. *174 Percy & Macmurdo, Edward W. Gray, Baton Rouge, for appellant. R. Gord

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge: Appellants, Henry T. Dart and the Libertarian Party of Louisiana, brought this suit seeking both injunctive relief and a declaration that certain sections of the Louisiana Election Code were unconstitutional. Finding that the Code sections in question, restricting the notation on the ballot of a candidate’s affiliation with an “unrecognized” political p

| iCIACCIO, Judge. This consolidated appeal arises from three separate suits filed on August 4, 1994 in Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Plaquemines, challenging the candidacy of three incumbent members of the Plaquemines Parish Council who have qualified to run for re-election in the primary election to be held on October 1, 1994. Following a consolidated trial, the trial judge rendered judgment in fav

In the United States Court of Federal Claims LESLIE R. HASTINGS, JR., Plaintiff, No. 22-cv-1705 v. Filed: March 8, 2023 THE UNITED STATES, Defendant. Leslie R. Hastings, Jr., Lamesa, Texas, appearing pro se. Laura Offenbacher Aradi, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., appearing for Defendant. MEMO

Judge Paula A. Brown This case involves a public servitude. Appellant, Deep South Leasing, LLC ("Deep South"),1 seeks review of the district *374court's June 14, 2017 judgment which found a general public servitude existed in favor of Appellee, River Rental Realty, LLC, and River Rental Tools, Inc. (collectively "Ri

IN THE ARIZONA COURT OF APPEALS DIVISION TWO TODD UNDERWOOD, AN UNMARRIED MAN; CHRISTOPHER BURMASTER, Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. THOMAS WILCZYNSKI AND DANA WILCZYNSKI, HUSBAND AND WIFE; JANET A. BEWLEY, IN HER CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE JANET A. BEWLEY TRUST DATED AUGUST 30, 2000,

STATE OF LOUISIANA * NO. 2022-KA-0669 VERSUS * COURT OF APPEAL WILLIAM SERIGNE, SR. AND * LIONEL SERIGNE, JR. FOURTH CIRCUIT * STATE OF LOUISIANA ******* APPEAL FROM ST. BERNA

No. 122,737 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS EUGENE R. FROST AND VICTORIA S. FROST, Appellants, v. KANSAS DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. By law, orders arising under the revis

BROWN, Chief Judge. JjThis is a tort case seeking damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff, Danielle Schelmety, while riding in a Rhino “side by side” four-wheel off-road vehicle driven by defendant, James Johnson. The instant appeal by both Danielle and James is from a summary judgment dismissing with prejudice Danielle’s claim against defendants, Safeco Insurance of America and Safeco Insurance Company of Oregon (“Safeco”

NEUBAUER, EJ. ¶ 1. Wisconsin Stat. § 118.51(2) (2007-08)1 permits a student to attend a public school in a nonresident school district, or "open enroll" in that district, under § 118.51. The narrow issue presented on appeal is whether a resident school district may limit the number of student transfers to nonresident school districts under § 118.51(6) or, in the alternative, limit the number of transf

OPINION AND ORDER JOHN E. STEELE, District Judge. This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff Securities and Exchange Commission’s Motion for Final Judgments Against Defendants Bimini Reef Real Estate, Inc., Riverview Capital Inc., Christopher L. As-trom, and Damian B. Guthrie (Doc. # 149) filed on April 19, 2013.1 Defendants filed a Response (Doc. # 154) on

RUBEN E. WILLIAMS * NO. 2023-CA-0180 VERSUS * COURT OF APPEAL TOURO INFIRMARY, A NON- * PROFIT CORPORATION FOURTH CIRCUIT * STATE OF LOUISIANA ******* APPEAL FROM CIVIL