BATON ROUGE -- The potential merger between the Baton Rouge Fire Department and East Baton Rouge EMS is still in wait-and-see mode after a court hearing Thursday. Questions still arise over whether the proposed merger is legal under the city-parish charter, also known as the plan of government.

19th JDC judge Ron Johnson says there is no reason why all of this can't be resolved in six months. He gave the attorneys representing both sides, the Baton Rouge Municipal Fire and Police Service Board and the East Baton Rouge EMS Paramedic Association, a 90-day discovery process.

"The parties get information about different things that are going on in the case. In this particular case, I don't know that it's a whole lot of information that's not already known to the public," The Board's attorney

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