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Monroe venue facts

County

Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

Trial court of general jurisdiction

District Court

Sources: Supreme Court of Louisiana, 2025 Annual Report: the district court is the trial court of general jurisdiction and generally has authority to handle all civil and criminal cases; the court structure includes the Louisiana Supreme Court, the courts of appeal, the East Baton Rouge Family Court, the juvenile courts and the city and parish courts; city courts hear ordinance violations, misdemeanors and traffic cases; parish courts hear civil cases worth up to $20,000 and minor criminal cases, appealable directly to the courts of appeal; the Family Court of East Baton Rouge Parish, the only stand-alone family court in the state, hears divorces, spousal and child support, custody and community property division; juvenile courts hear delinquency, child in need of care and adoption cases (reviewed 2026-10-12); Supreme Court of Louisiana, 2025 Guide to Louisiana Courts: the parishes of each district court and of each circuit of the Court of Appeal; the Family Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge; the Caddo, East Baton Rouge, Jefferson and Orleans juvenile courts (reviewed 2026-10-12); Louisiana State Legislature, Code of Civil Procedure, city court jurisdiction: civil limits set court by court, from $15,000 to $50,000 (reviewed 2026-10-12); Louisiana State Legislature, Code of Civil Procedure, parish court jurisdiction: civil cases up to $20,000 unless the law provides otherwise (reviewed 2026-10-12)

Appellate courts

Court of Appeal, First Circuit; Court of Appeal, Second Circuit; Court of Appeal, Third Circuit; Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit; Court of Appeal, Fifth Circuit

Federal districts

Eastern District of Louisiana; Middle District of Louisiana; Western District of Louisiana

Forums and agencies in Louisiana

Workers' compensation claims arising in Louisiana are heard before the Louisiana Office of Workers' Compensation Administration; the Louisiana Rehabilitation Services (LRS) is Louisiana's public vocational rehabilitation agency. Attorneys confirm the governing rule for their case.

Sources: Louisiana Works, Office of Workers' Compensation Administration (Workers' Compensation Main Menu, For Workers) (reviewed 2026-10-11)

Commuting flows, Ouachita Parish

In the 2016-2020 American Community Survey commuting flows, the largest flows of workers into Ouachita Parish came from Union Parish (2,991 workers), Morehouse Parish (2,261) and Richland Parish (2,079), and the largest flows out of Ouachita Parish went to Lincoln Parish (1,348 workers), Richland Parish (712) and Morehouse Parish (454).

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2016-2020 American Community Survey, county-to-county commuting flows (Table 1) (reviewed 2026-09-13)