The Ascension Parish Council’s District 4 consultant Corey Orgeron has been ordered to pay some $9,900 in lawyer and courtroom charges incurred from a lawsuit filed in opposition to the parish’s president.
Choose Tess Stomberg of the twenty third Judicial Courtroom, which incorporates Ascension, St. James, and Assumption parishes, dismissed the lawsuit that Orgeron handed to Ascension Parish President Clint Cointment throughout the June 3, 2021 council assembly held on the Donaldsonville courthouse.
Orgeron contended the president and his administration has withheld information from him and the council.
He meant for a choose to find out the president’s authority underneath the house rule constitution.
In a Fb publish in June, Orgeron said he had made “request after request for data” over a interval of 15 months involving the utilities and drainage departments, personnel, and different common data.
The lawsuit was filed previous to a risky second half of 2021. Disagreements between Orgeron and different members of the council in addition to the administration over drainage led to Cointment’s controversial momentary elimination as director of East Ascension Drainage.
Throughout that point, citizen teams organized efforts to recall Orgeron and 5 different council members – John Cagnolatti, Teri Casso, Aaron Lawler, Dempsey Lambert, and Dal Waguespack.
The six recall campaigns have been unsuccessful, because the deadlines have handed for all six recollects.