A downtown Lafayette night club, and not its insurance company, will have to face any possible damages awarded through a civil suit filed by two former patrons, according to a ruling handed down this week by the Third Circuit Court of Appeal in Lake Charles. The lawsuit against Nite Town on Jefferson Street, seeking unspecified damages, was filed nearly two years ago in state district court in Lafayette but has been knotted up by a squabble between the club and its insurer.
Soon after the suit was filed against Nite Town by Richard Le and Edward Prince, Markel International Insurance Co., Nite Town’s insurer, sought and received a summary judgment shielding it from liability. Nite Town appealed to the Third Circuit, but the three-judge panel sided with Markel, citing an assault and/or battery exclusion in Nite Town’s insurance policy.
The suit alleges that on Oct. 1, 2006, bouncers at Nite Town used excessive force against Le and Prince, causing serious injuries that required medical attention. Court documents show Nite Town disputes the account, arguing that Le and Prince started the fight with Nite Town bouncers. A jury is set to hear the case May 11.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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