Bossier City has more procedural concerns about a federal lawsuit that it and three officials are facing concerning utility shut-offs at a motel property near Live! Casino.
In April, a judge denied the city’s motion for the federal court to abstain from or delay the case so that a similar case could move through state court. Now the city wants the court to strike more than 300 pages of evidence attached to the complaint submitted by the plaintiff, Merryton Bossier, LLC, according to the city’s answer filed on Friday.
“The Complaint should set forth facts, so as to place the Defendants on notice, but should not attempt to prove the case, and the Complaint is certainly not a mechanism to dump raw, unverified evidence on the Court,” Bossier City’s defense reads. “Merryton’s Complaint violates the spirit of notice pleadings pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 8 and 10 and most certainly prohibits the making of a succinct answer…