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Bridge Blockade During Katrina Subject Of Court Action
12/16/09 - 09:33 PM
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A federal judge is weighing whether to dismiss claims against the city of Gretna over a police blockade that kept Hurricane Katrina victims from crossing a bridge out of New Orleans after the August 2005 storm.


A lawyer for Gretna and police chief Arthur Lawson argued Wednesday that plaintiffs Tracy and Dorothy Dickerson have no case because they weren’t threatened or detained by law enforcement officers they encountered as they tried to cross the Crescent City Connection after Katrina.


Plaintiffs attorney Adele Owen told U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon that a jury, not a judge, should decide whether her clients’ claims have merit. The judge didn’t immediately rule.

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