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NEW ORLEANS—District Attorney Eddie Jordan disclosed plans to resign Tuesday amid a $3.7 million discrimination verdict against his office and a rising murder rate since Hurricane Katrina. Jordan's spokesman, Dalton Savwoir, said the district attorney told his staff he would resign on Wednesday. Jordan lost the discrimination lawsuit against dozens of his former employees in 2005. The white former employees said they were fired by Jordan, who is black, because of their race. Jordan has consistently lost the appeals in that case and earlier this week, a federal judge refused to delay payment of the judgment. That opened the door...

New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan bristled at criticism and walked out of an ABC News Nightline interview when told that law enforcement officials were critical of Jordan's handling of his office. ABC News' Brian Ross interviewed Jordan earlier today as part of a report examining the state of the New Orleans justice system one year after Katrina, to be broadcast on Nightline later tonight. Since last year's hurricane, there has been growing criticism of Jordan's office by senior people in law enforcement who say, even with the acknowledged problems caused by Katrina, the District Attorney has not efficiently dealt...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the civil lawsuit filed against Eddie Jordan by 44 former employees who accuse the black district attorney of firing them because they are white. "I am not a racist, and I think that will come out in court," Jordan said befire trial began in U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval's courtroom. Within days of taking office in 2003, Jordan had fired 56 people, 53 of them white, from support positions. None was an attorney. Nearly all of the jobs were filled with blacks. Jordan had asked Duval to throw out the suit,...