David C. Pellegrin
Can Intoxication Be Established by Circumstantial Evidence in Civil Car Accident Cases in Louisiana?
Maybe. But that circumstantial evidence, taken as a whole, must exclude every other reasonable hypothesis with a fair amount of certainty. Rando v. Anco Insulations Inc., 2008-1163 (La. 5/22/09), 16 So. 3d 1065, 1090. The Louisiana Supreme Court recently granted writs in a case to answer how convincing circumstantial evidence of intoxication has to be to survive summary judgment. The …