Mealey's (March 21, 2023, 4:56 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana appellate court affirmed a trial court’s decision that residents of a housing development built on the site of a former landfill in New Orleans could not intervene in a class action over failure to disclose the presence of toxic substances, including arsenic, mercury and lead in the landfill’s soil, filed against the city of New Orleans, a school board, the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), its insurers and the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA), finding that the residents lack a right to intervene because “the requisite element of connexity does not exist.”...