William Campbell has filed a lawsuit against Orient-Express Hotels Louisiana, Inc., Windsor Court Hotel Inc. of Delaware, Windsor Court Hotel, L.L.C., Windsor Court Hotel Limited Partnership, and Windsor Court Management Louisiana, Inc. (collectively referred to as "Windsor Court"). The case is filed in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal in the state of Louisiana under case ID 2023-CA-0731. The appeal is from Civil District Court, Orleans Parish No. 2009-04175, Division “I-14” and was signed on April 25, 2024.
On Christmas Day 2018, Mr. Campbell alleges that he was robbed and injured at the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans after being lured by occupants of a parked vehicle within the hotel premises. Represented by Patrick H. Hufft of Hufft & Hufft, APLC, Campbell had initially filed a petition for damages against Windsor Court on April 23, 2009.
The defendants represented by Anne Derbes Wittmann and Erin Pelleteri Howser from Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC have denied liability citing lack of foreseeability due to absence of any criminal activity on their premises for at least twenty years prior to this incident.
Mr. Campbell seeks reversal of the trial court's April 4, 2023 judgment granting Windsor Court's motion for summary judgment and remand this matter to the trial court for further proceedings.