Seven victims of the attack on Bourbon Street have filed a lawsuit against the city and two of its contractors, alleging they failed to protect the street from what happened on New Year’s Day morning, an assailant driving down the street at a high rate of speed. Loyola University Law professor Dane Ciolino says a lawsuit targeting private contractors instead of the police department could be successful….
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The suit takes aim at one of the contractors Mott MacDonald, alleging the firm was warned Bourbon Street was vulnerable to a vehicle attack. Ciolino adds it may take years for this suit to be resolved.
Former New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton met with the media yesterday. He’s the consultant brought in to help New Orleans Police with its security plan for the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras…
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Governor Jeff Landry has named Scott Ballard as the new president of the LSU Board of Supervisors. Ballard is a co-owner of P-J’s Coffee and according to the Advocate newspaper helped raise substantial amounts of money for Landry’s gubernatorial campaign. Ballard is not an LSU grad and this is his second stint on the LSU Board of Supervisors.
The oldest institute of higher education in Louisiana is celebrating a milestone this year. Andrew Greenstein reports.