LSU’s General Counsel and legal advisor to the LSU Board of Supervisors told lawmakers why LSU employees had been banned from speaking under oath to the Legislative Select Committee on Women and Children today.
GC Winston Decuir said the decision was the result of a lawsuit by a current LSU administrator and that he only learned of Wednesday. Decuir said at the time the decision to bar employees from testifying was made he the suit had not officially been filed and so he could only infer what it covered and who was named in it.
“I have to be protective when threatened with a lawsuit,” said Decuir. “We are talking me trying to make a decision based on the announcement of threatened litigation, I have to be cautious in that situation.”