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Court orders response to Kyle's information requests
Posted on November 7, 2003
BATON ROUGE - A retired East Baton Rouge District Court judge Thursday ordered the Louisiana Insurance Department to provide insurance commissioner candidate Dan Kyle with written responses to all of his outstanding requests for information by 9 a.m. Monday or explain to the court why the department not be held in contempt.
But "I believe the department is making a good-faith effort to comply with Mr. Kyle's requests," said Bob Hester, who presided over the case as an ad hoc judge.
"I think we did great," Kyle said. "We won outright on getting the information we wanted."
But the Republican said the case is not over because Hester ruled that Kyle is not the proper party to bring suit on one element of the case. A lawsuit demanding a list of all the convicted felons licensed by the department since Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley took office rightfully should have been filed by Kyle campaign attorney Steve Irving, who sought the information over his own signature, Hester said.
Irving said he would renew the issue by filing suit for himself.
"I'm very pleased. The court found just like we said," Wooley, the Democrat incumbent facing Kyle in the Nov. 15 runoff, said.
