Faucheaux v. Terrebonne Consol. Government

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the “violation of a statute or regulation does not automatically, in and of itself, impose civil liability. Civil responsibility is imposed only if the act in violation of the statute is the legal cause of damage to another.”
• applying comparative fault analysis where defendant violated regulation but plaintiffs negligence contributed to harm
• “The violation of a statute or regulation does not automatically, in and of itself, impose civil liability. Civil responsibility is imposed only if the act in violation of the statute is the legal cause of damage to another.”
• “The terminology ‘negligence per se’ has been rejected in Louisiana.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).