Rule 9.4 Pleadings To Be Filed with Clerk; Prior or Multiple Filings of Pleadings
Title II: Rules for Civil Proceedings in District Courts | Chapter 9: Procedure
Rule Text
(a) All pleadings shall be filed with the clerk of court before presentation to the assigned judge. Exceptions to this Rule are noted in Appendix 9.4.
(b) Judge or forum shopping is prohibited. To achieve continuity of case management and avoid the appearance of judge or forum shopping, all subsequent actions asserting the same claim by the same parties, except for cases filed in juvenile courts with concurrent jurisdiction, shall be transferred to the division to which the first case filed was allotted, whether or not the first case is still pending. Any attorney or party who files more than one petition for the same party on the same cause of action shall attach to any subsequent petition a “Notice of Prior Filing or Multiple Filing,” regardless of whether any of the previous petitions were dismissed. This notice shall comply with La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 853.
Amendment history: Adopted April 1, 2002, effective April 1, 2002; amended June 2, 2003, effective July 1, 2003; amended November 3, 2008, effective January 1, 2009; amended November 20, 2009, effective January 1, 2010; amended April 20, 2010, effective June 1, 2010; amended May 15, 2013, effective June 1, 2013.