DIGEST
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CONFERENCE COMMI TTEE REPORT DIGEST
House Bill No. 1181 by Representative Shadoin
Keyword and oneliner of the instrument as it left the House
CIVIL/JURY TRIALS: Provides relative to the jurisdictional limitation of certain city courts
Report rejects Senate amendments which would have:
1. Authorized the judges for the city court of Monroe to practice law.
Digest of the bill as proposed by the Conference Committee
Present law provides that in the city courts of Alexandria, Pineville, Slidell, and Ruston, the civil
jurisdiction is concurrent with the district court in cases where the amount in dispute, or the value
of the property involved, does not exceed the amount provided in Article 1732(1) for purposes of
demanding a jury trial, which is $50,000 pursuant to present law.
Proposed law sets the jurisdictional amount in dispute at $50,000 and removes the reference to
the amount in dispute provided by Article 1732(1).
(Amends C.C.P. Art. 4843(H))