Storyville District New Orleans, LLC v. Canal Street Development Corp.

ORDER AND REASONS

MARTIN L.C. FELDMAN, District Judge.

Before the Court is the defendants’ joint motion to dismiss or, in the alternative, to abstain or stay. For the reasons that follow, the motion is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part.

Background

This civil rights lawsuit concerns a subtenants’ operation of a mechanical bull on its subleased premises, which resulted in a state trial court ruling, during an eviction proceeding, that the mechanical bull must be removed; the subtenants assert that their lessors conspired with state actors to remove them from their subleased Bourbon Street property.