In a press release issued last week, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration prided itself on a recent decision by Judge Lloyd J. Medley Jr. to uphold fines imposed on a taxpayer financed developer who has failed to bring a lakefront strip mall back into commerce years after Katrina damaged it. The city lauded the ruling as a victory in the Landrieu administration’s war on blight, evidence that it has “aggressively pursued” measures against the strip mall owner, including fines of $15,575 affirmed by Medley.