Celebration and concern reactions as Cerelyn Davis in line to become first outside Memphis Police Director in decades
The Durham, NC police chief chosen by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland ahead of three internal MPD director finalists. Author: Brad Broders Updated: 6:23 PM CDT April 19, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tennessee Cerelyn Davis would take over leading the Memphis Police Department in a city which set a new record high in homicides in 2020 and is struggling to recruit and retain new officers.
That s why her selection by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland carries weight, from a former MPD director to the current president of the Memphis Police Association.
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – An employee of New Orleans’ Boomtown Casino Hotel says the personal injury lawyer suing him over a fall off the toilet is pulling some shenanigans to keep the case out of federal court.
Brad Hirsch said in a March 12 motion to dismiss that the only reason he was named as a defendant was so that plaintiff Dominic Varrecchio would have a Louisiana resident involved in the case. Varrecchio did this, Hirsch argues, to defeat the diversity jurisdiction argument defendants can make to have cases removed to federal court.
State courts are often seen as more plaintiff-friendly, especially in jurisdictions like Louisiana that tort reformers have been concerned about for years. Varrecchio, a lawyer representing himself, sued Boomtown and Hirsch earlier this year in Jefferson Parish court over an alleged February 2020 incident in his hotel room.