Plante not automatically personally immune from Formula E lawsuit: judge

A Superior Court judge has rejected Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante’s motion to quash a lawsuit filed against her by the organizers of the Formula E electric car race she ordered canceled last year.
As a result, the $33-million lawsuit naming her and the city as co-defendants is to go to trial, the ruling says.
Plante claimed she was acting as mayor and bears no personal responsibility towards Formula E Operations Ltd., which filed suit against her and the city after she announced las