Attorney fees could balloon to $500,000 to parse New Orleans City Council e-mails

 

Hold on to your seats folks.New Orleans City Council Attorney Steven Lane is looking to hit the jack

pot with the work he is doing on New Orleans City Council e-mails so that they can be made

available to the public and to local media stations. Take a look at the Steven Lane link above,this guy

has won some huge cases,my guess is the bill will hit 7 figures .I know a few  Tulane Law students that would do this for free.

As you remember this fiasco originated from requests by Tracie Washington and local media televison stations to see the

e-mails.

Steven Lane filed suit  on behalf of New Orleans City Council in Division E  with Judge Madeleine Landrieu against City Attorney

Penye Moses-Fields claiming the time frame  to produce e-mails is to short .Here's the kicker .In the suit Steven Lane claims

based on an e-mail experts testimony that the e-mails have viruses and that if not properly opened with expensive software

the e-mails could be damaged beyond repair maybe.This sends up red flags to me to hire

such a high priced attorney just to go through a couple e-mails,I am starting to wonder just what is in those e-mails

that the council is stone walling so much for.Lane also sent letter to Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell for good

measure.New Orleans is almost bankrupt as it stands with no sustainable economy and now the city council

hires some fat cat lawyer who I am sure has not missed a meal at Ruth's Chris steakhouse to defend them .Is it just me

or is this digging a deaper hole.In all fearness to Tracie Washington ,she had every right to request e-mails ,the fact that

WDSU,Associated Press,WVUE,and others are also requesting those e-mails is not her fault.In fact I think they owe her a

tip.Should New Orleans City Council hire new law firm .

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