Last summer, Holly Hills neighbors agreed to pay $200 to put off-duty police officers on their streets. This week, St. Louis Hill voted on a similar plan.
Mergers will be suspended for several parishes until the Dicastery for the Clergy makes a decision, which the Archdiocese said will likely take months.
"This was in reaction to South City Hospital closing and we went into action. The layoff was 563 people," Fredrecka McGlown, SLATE's executive director, said.
The lawsuit, filed by Republican Rep. Dan Caulkins, of Decatur, and like-minded gun owners, alleges the law violates the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms
Owner Chris Goodson said he did not know how many employees had been let go, nor how many the company still employed. He said last month that Fields had 150 workers.