BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge judge has set the trial dates for District Attorney Hillar Moore’s lawsuit against East Baton Rouge Parish, Mayor-President Sid Edwards and the Metro Council.
Moore initially filed suit against the city-parish government in April for millions of dollars in an effort to gain more funding for the DA’s office. Late last month, the Louisiana Supreme Court declined to hear arguments over whether additional municipalities should be a part of the lawsuit.
The lawsuit is currently being fast-tracked as a summary proceeding. City-parish attorneys tried to have the lawsuit converted to ordinary proceedings, but that was declined Thursday by a judge…