NOLA Court Halts Wal-Mart Project

The court-appointed curator for Arlene Meraux has succeeded in getting all work on a proposed Wal-Mart Super Center in Chalmette suspended until an April 8 hearing, reports The Times-Picayune. "The order is the latest development in the public struggle to control the Meraux estate. Meraux, 80, is in declining health and was ruled by a court in August to be unable to tend to her affairs because of chronic senile dementia." The Wal-Mart project is now involved in the dispute regarding the management of her health and wealth because it is unclear who owns the land where the store is to be built: J&A Meraux, Inc. or the Joseph and Arlene Meraux Charitable Foundation.

Posted by AJR at March 26, 2003 07:53 AM