摘要: |
A judge on the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal has concurred with a trial court, ruling against a group of businesses, organizations and individuals from St. Bernard Parish that sued to block a proposed container terminal in the parish from moving forward. Stop The Destruction of St. Bernard Inc. (known locally as SOS) and the other plaintiffs had claimed the project, led by the Port of New Orleans and in conjunction with the St. Bernard Port, Harbor & Terminal District, amounted to a nuisance to the community. At the trial level, the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) argued, in part, for an exception of prematurity due to the Louisiana International Terminal (LIT) currently being a proposal, with the project still going through the permitting process at the state and federal levels. The trial court granted that exception of prematurity, and Judge Sandra Cabrina Jenkins of the Fourth Circuit concurred. Jenkins said that the plaintiffs would have a chance to oppose the project through the same permitting process that Port NOLA is working through. |