Louisiana Town Defendants Granted Judgment On Pleadings In Flooding Class Suit

Mealey's (April 24, 2018, 12:11 PM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana federal judge on April 20 granted a motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by a Louisiana town and its officials in a class complaint by residents alleging improper responses to a 2016 flood but ruled that the plaintiffs may have one chance to amend their complaint to state a claim against the Clinton, La., defendants (People’s Workshop, et al. v. Federal Emergency Management Agency, et al., No. 17-107, M.D. La., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66912)....