Louisiana is divided into three judicial districts to be known as the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana.
Eastern District
(a) The Eastern District comprises the parishes of Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, and Washington.
Court for the Eastern District shall be held at New Orleans, and Houma.
Middle District
(b) The Middle District comprises the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.
Court for the Middle District shall be held at Baton Rouge.
Western District
(c) The Western District comprises the parishes of Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Cameron, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia, Jefferson Davis, De Soto, East Carroll, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Iberia, Jackson, Lafayette, La Salle, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Saint Mary, Tensas, Union, Vermilion, Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, and Winn.
Court for the Western District shall be held at Alexandria, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe, Opelousas, and Shreveport.
Notes of Decisions
Cook v. Shell Chem. Co.(Shell Oil Co.), 730 F. Supp. 1381 (M.D. La. 1990).
“28 U.S.C. § 98 (a). Counsel have failed to address in their supplemental memoranda whether removing to the wrong district is procedural or jurisdictional.”
Lewis v. Mfrs. Cas. Ins. Co., 107 F. Supp. 465 (W.D. La. 1952).
· cites it 2× “' This Court was ordained and established; 28 U.S.C. § 98 (b), 28 U.S.C.A. § 98 (b) ; and it was vested with judicial power in controversies between citizens of different states, by the Congress of the United States, pursuant to the authority -given the Congress .”
Piazza v. Upjohn Co., 570 F. Supp. 5 (M.D. La. 1983).
“§ 1447 mandates the federal district court to remand any case which has been removed “improvidently and without jurisdiction.”
Gulf Atl. Transp. Co. v. Offshore Tugs, Inc., 740 F. Supp. 823 (M.D. Fla. 1990).
“According to 28 U.S.C. § 98 , said parish is within the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.”
Farmer v. D & O Contractors, Inc., 40 F. Supp. 3d 793 (N.D. Miss. 2014).
“28 U.S.C. § 98 (a) ("The Eastern District comprises the parishes of Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Tangipa-hoa, Terrebonne, and Washington.”
George v. 17 Jud. Dist. (S.D.N.Y. 2020).
· cites it 2× “28 U.S.C. § 98 (b). Because Plaintiff does not allege that the defendants reside in this judicial district or that the events or omissions giving rise to his claims occurred in this judicial district, venue is not proper in this Court under § 1391(b)(1) or (2).”
Toney v. Miller, 564 F. Supp. 2d 577 (E.D. La. 2008).
· cites it 2× “Petitioner is incarcerated at the Washington Correctional Institute in Angie, Louisiana, which is in Washington Parish, a parish that falls within the Eastern District of Louisiana under 28 U.S.C. § 98 (a). In addition, petitioner was convicted and sentenced in Tangipahoa…”
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