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NEW ORLEANS — Already struggling over how to pay a $17.5 million judgment to its firefighters’ pension fund, New Orleans could soon face another whopping bill, this one decades in the making.
Attorneys for Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the city firefighters union are expected to square off Friday in Civil District Court over $75.5 million a judge ruled the city owes to more than 1,100 firefighters or their families for back pay earned between March 1990 and late 2006.
Louis Robein, an attorney for the union, asked Civil District Judge Kern Reese on June 30 to force city officials to come up with a pay plan. Assistant City Attorney Cashuana Hill responded that the administration is trying to do so. “The city continues to evaluate its resources and seek creative solutions in an attempt to determine how and when the amount owed can be paid,” she wrote in a court filing.
Full story: New Orleans firefighters in court to demand $75.5 million in back pay