MONROE MUNICIPAL FIRE AND POLICE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD V. REGINALD BROWN AND THE CITY OF MONROE (Granted; Remanded for Perfection as an Appeal)

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 4EFB1CF7-8246-41D2-92EA-A11B31932DE7 STATE OF LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEAL, SECOND CIRCUIT 430 Fannin Street Shreveport, LA 71101 (318) 227-3700 No. 55,318-CW MONROE MUNICIPAL FIRE AND POLICE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD VERSUS REGINALD BROWN AND THE CITY OF MONROE FILED: 05/09/23 RECEIVED: FEDEX 05/08/23 On application of Reginald Brown for SUPERVISORY WRIT in No. C-20221506 on the docket of the Fourth Judicial District, Parish of OUACHITA, Judge Daniel Joseph Ellender. MINNIFIELD & HARPER Pamela Rene Harper -andCAROL POWELL LEXING & ASSOCIATES Carol Denise Powell-Lexing Counsel for: Reginald Brown HAMMONDS SILLS ADKINS GUICE Elmer Gray Noah, II Counsel for: Monroe Municipal Fire and Civil Service Board GOLD WEEMS BRUSER SUES & RUNDELL Joshua Joy Dara, Jr. Counsel for: City of Monroe Before PITMAN, STONE, and THOMPSON, JJ. WRIT GRANTED; REMANDED FOR PERFECTION AS AN APPEAL. The applicant, Reginald Brown, seeks supervisory review of the trial court’s December 22, 2022, ruling reinstating the Monroe Police Department’s termination of his employment and the January 31, 2023, judgment denying a motion for appeal and a motion for rehearing. The December 22, 2022, judgment is a final and appealable judgment. In re Succession of Scurria, 45,292 (La. App. 2 Cir. 8/25/10), 47 So. 3d 620. Applicant’s motion for suspensive appeal was timely and properly filed and the trial court erred in denying the motion for appeal as untimely in the January 31, 2023, judgment. That portion of the trial court’s DocuSign Envelope ID: 4EFB1CF7-8246-41D2-92EA-A11B31932DE7 No. 55,318-CW Page 2 ruling is reversed and this matter is hereby remanded to the trial court for perfection of the suspensive appeal in which the remaining issues may be resolved. Shreveport, Louisiana, this ________ day of ________________________, 2023. 1 June ___________________ ___________________ June 1, 2023 FILED: _____________________________ ____________________________________ DEPUTY CLERK ___________________

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