Iberville and Ascension parishes should compensate the owners of Alligator Bayou Swamp Tours for opening the bayou’s floodgate in 2009 and ruining the company’s business, an attorney for the firm told a state appellate court Thursday. “They (Iberville and Ascension governments) destroyed the swamp tour business. They (the company’s owners) should be compensated,’’ Clay Garside, who represents Alligator Bayou Swamp [...]
Posted: Mar 17, 2012 3:59 PM CDT Updated: Mar 17, 2012 8:28 PM CDT By Michelle Lady SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) - The Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously ruled the Public Service Commission must go back and provide more details on why commissioners eased the financial terms under which the Kemper County Power Plant could be built. Attorney Robert Wiygul who represents [...]
Posted: Mar 15, 2012 10:24 AM CDT Updated: Mar 15, 2012 11:33 AM CDT Gulf Restoration Network Sierra Club - Mississippi HARRISON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - The Sierra Club and Gulf Restoration Network have filed a lawsuit against the Mississippi Development Authority, challenging the regulations that have been created for oil and gas exploration in Mississippi waters. Louie Miller with [...]
By Wes Helbling Bastrop Daily Enterprise Posted Mar 09, 2012 @ 11:00 AM BASTROP — Documents on file with the Union Parish Clerk of Court indicate the fate of the USA Speedway will be decided by a jury in October. The court date is slated for more than two years after residents initially filed a petition for permanent injunction and [...]
Reuters | Mar 11, 2012, 08.58PM IST VENICE (LOUISIANA): The phone at Joan Strohmeyer's fishing lodge has been ringing steadily since 2010, but not many of the calls are from customers who want to go fishing. Mainly, they are from lawyers who want her to sue British oil company BP Plc. The tidy, 62-room Lighthouse Lodge is perched near [...]
BP spill settlement promises fast payouts Published: Sunday, March 04, 2012, 3:11 PM Updated: Monday, March 05, 2012, 6:19 AM By Rebecca Mowbray, The Times-Picayune After reaching a deal Friday night to settle health and economic damage claims by individuals and businesses who were harmed by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP and plaintiff attorneys leading the litigation [...]
