Attorney Ben Crump is calling on the state Legislature to hold a special session to address the state’s abortion ban law. Crump represents Nancy Davis who was denied an abortion in Louisiana despite being told her baby had a lethal condition in which the skull does not fully form. Crump says this is the type of medical exemption in which an abortion should be allowed in Louisiana
After New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell showed up in court in support of a 14-year-old convicted carjacker, one of the victims Stephanie Uddo says when Cantrell said God Bless you to her it felt like another attack.
Her court appearance and criticism over a taxpayer-funded trip to France has prompted a petition to recall Cantrell.
A preliminary settlement has been reached in the class-action lawsuit against Bob Dean over the evacuation of more than 800 nursing home patients to a warehouse last year during Hurricane Ida. Blair Constant, one of the attorneys representing patients, says a trial date of October 3rd has been set.
Which equates to approximately $17- thousand for each patient.
The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources will receive a 25-million dollar federal grant to clean up abandoned wells. D-N-R spokesperson Patrick Courreges (rhymes with massage) says most of the orphaned wells are in north Louisiana with 31 hundred of the 45-hundred current abandoned well sites in the Shreveport and Monroe areas these wells become an environmental hazard over time…