The Louisiana Oil & Gas Association filed suit Friday against Attorney General Buddy Caldwell in an attempt to halt a wetlands damages lawsuit filed in July by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies.
The suit, filed by the industry group in the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge, asks a state judge to declare that Caldwell's office improperly approved a contract between the levee authority and the Jones Swanson Huddell & Garrison LLC law firm and to issue an injunction rescinding that approval.