A desegregation case in Evangeline Parish is wrapping up, and now the deseg attorney wants the parish to pay up.

Opelousas attorney Marion Overton White is asking for $1.6-million. This comes just months after White agreed to accept $800,000 from neighboring St. Landry parish for that parish's deseg case.

White says he achieved outstanding results in a complex and politically difficult case that few attorneys would have taken.

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