Carrouche v. City of New Orleans

ORDER AND REASONS

FELDMAN, District Judge.

Before the Court is the City of New Orleans’s Motion to Abstain. For the reasons that follow, the Motion is GRANTED.

Background

This dispute arises from the City of New Orleans’s historical underfunding of the Firefighters Pension and Relief Fund. Plaintiffs complain that the City’s failure to properly appropriate money for the Fund frustrates the Board of Trustees’ obligation to maintain sufficient resources to make benefits payments to plan participants.

The plaintiffs have previously sued the City for under-funding the pension fund. In 1989, the Fund…