NEW ORLEANS — While Mayor LaToya Cantrell awaits the outcome of intertwined federal investigations in which a contractor was recently indicted for allegedly bribing her and her former police bodyguard was indicted for payroll fraud, a federal civil rights lawsuit against the mayor will be allowed to proceed.
U.S. District Judge Nanette Jolivette Brown denied a motion to stay the lawsuit filed against Cantrell, her chief of staff Clifton Davis and three New Orleans police officers.
The lawsuit filed by French Quarter resident Anne Breaud claims that Cantrell and the others violated her privacy by publishing confidential information about her in the now-dismissed protective order…