#hassinger

Maren Hassinger, 

Rivers (detail), 2007, 

pen and black ink on paper, 

36.2 × 34 × 3 cm. 

Team Jindal, hoping to fend off questions about Hassinger’s potential conflict, noted that Galloway Johnson does not represent any of the suit’s 97 named defendants. That does not address the equally sticky issue of whether the firm represents any of the defendants’ many insurers.

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The SLFPA-E filed its suit in July after a unanimous vote of support from its nine-member board, whose members serve staggered terms to minimize political interference. At today's meeting, actor, social commentator and frequent New Orleans resident Harry Shearer blasted attempts to sidetrack the suit, calling them a “grotesque” example of the kind of political interference the board was created to avoid.

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If Jindal, Hassinger & Co. succeed in scuttling the lawsuit, it will be the biggest sellout since Huey Long gave his pals the mineral rights to Louisiana's water bottoms. Let's hope the public turns out in force to let the SLFPA-E know that people are behind the effort to make Big Oil pay for what it broke.

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