New Orleans may lose its D.A. office
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From Times Wire Reports
New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin says the state could take over the district attorney’s office as early as Monday as the agency faces a multimillion-dollar civil judgment.
A federal judge ruled last week that the office’s assets could be seized to pay off a $3.65-million judgment pending from a 2005 case in which dozens of white office workers successfully sued Dist. Atty. Eddie Jordan for replacing them with black workers.
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