Cajun Navy 2016, a nonprofit founded after devastating floods hit Louisiana 10 years ago, has filed a lawsuit against the organization United Cajun Navy and its top officials, saying that group has damaged its reputation with “a multiyear campaign of false and defamatory statements.”
United Cajun Navy is one of about a half-dozen rescue groups, all with some version of Cajun Navy in their name, that grew out of a grassroots response to massive flooding from hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
The groups use boats and high-water vehicles to respond to natural disasters…