Highbridge tenants prepare for court battle – suing landlord for failing to make repairs – mold

By Daniel Beekman
A Highbridge Avenue apartment building is headed for a battle royal in court. On Tuesday, November 17, tenants at 1380 University Avenue announced a lawsuit against landlord Martin Carlin, who has allegedly failed to repair apartments and keep elevators in order.
Months ago, tenant leaders at the building discovered that Carlin had allegedly accepted [...]

New Orleans, Louisiana – St. Bernard Courthouse is infested with mold – leave to the some in Louisiana to allow employees to continue working in a Katrina flooded, mold filled building then downplay the health effects

By Chris Kirkham, The Times-Picayune
December 13, 2009

Chris Granger - Times-Picayune archive - Boats are beached around the St. Bernard Parish Courthouse after Hurricane Katrina in September 2005.
Enshrouded in a grove of oak trees off St. Bernard Highway, the St. Bernard Parish Courthouse has been a fixture in St. Bernard Parish politics dating back to the Great Depression [...]

Schools Mum on Mold Mystery – “Guilford County Schools is trying to play it both ways – downplaying any problems with the school, to limit its liability in parent lawsuits, and claiming major problems in the school’s construction, to win its suit against Lyon Construction. It’s an odd balancing act”

by Paul C. Clark
Staff Writer Dec. 3, 2009
Guilford County Schools has reached the most ludicrous, but always most likely, outcome to the long-running Oak Ridge Elementary School mystery: no smoking gun as to the cause of the symptoms reported for years by teachers and students; no one willing to take the legal risk of even [...]