Tragedy in New Orleans last year hangs over this year’s Sugar Bowl

... “Unfortunately, they were so focused on a security plan in place for the Super Bowl for this marquee event that they basically put NYEs and the Sugar Bowl on the back-burner and ignored it and allowed it to be an unsecure situation,” Cerasa said.

His firm is representing 35 of the victims and their families from the New Year’s Day attack, including Georgia student Elle Eisele, who was injured.

Read more about the attack and lawsuit from Candace McCowan for WSB-TV Atlanta.