The Supreme Court rules that employees cannot be fired due to their sexual orientation or if they are transgender. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says the ruling has added meaning in Louisiana because state law did not protect gays and transgender individuals from workplace discrimination…
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Ciolino says this now puts orientation and transgender status under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Housing advocates ask the Governor to again extend the eviction moratorium that lapsed today. Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center spokesperson Max Ciardullo says evictions put people at high-risk of COVID in a bad spot. He says if you are high-risk and get an eviction notice, know your rights.
Authorities are seeking those responsible for gunfire that left two people are dead at a large gathering in Raceland. Just after midnight on Sunday morning, Lt. Brennan Matherne says the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office received a call about a disturbance on St. Louis Street.
21-year-old Aliza Gabriel and 20-year-old Tanasa Francis, both of Raceland, died in the incident.
Wild crawfish farmers are steaming over federal restrictions on who can and cannot receive CARES Act COVID relief money. Wild crawfish fisherman Jody Meche says crawfish farmers can get cash, but those who fish them in the wild have been left out in the cold. Meche says he spends hundreds of dollars a day on bait and fuel to harvest the mudbugs and the relief money would help with the expenses of not being able to sell his catch because restaurants have not been buying.