Attorneys for nursing home operator Bob Dean say he has dementia and should not have to sit for depositions. Dean is facing numerous lawsuits after evacuating over 800 people from his seven nursing homes before Hurricane Ida. They were taken to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish, where conditions were not fit for people to live. Several died. Now Dean’s lawyers say he has cognitive challenges. Legal analyst Tim Meche says this may excuse him from depositions, but he can still be held liable, but he must be ruled competent to stand trial..:

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Dean’s nursing home licenses have been revoked. His lawyers are seeking the get them back.

The Coast Guard suspends the search for a woman who jumped over the rail of a cruise ship in the Gulf Wednesday. There is cell phone video of her having some kind of altercation with someone right before leaping overboard. The unidentified woman hit the side of the ship as she fell the ten stories to the water. She was never seen resurfacing.

More than 50 parades will roll between Friday and Fat Tuesday in the New Orleans area and after the pandemic paused parades last year, there’s more than krewe members riding on Mardi Gras this year. Brooke Thorington explains…:

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The state legislature is expected wrap up its special session on redistricting today. Lawmakers have been split along party and racial lines on the subject of adding more majority black districts. Whatever maps do come out of the redistricting session will quite likely wind up challenged in court.