A forester who owns woodlands in East Feliciana Parish is suing the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), alleging that the agency’s policy of allowing game wardens to enter private lands without warrants violates the state constitution.
A former Louisiana State University athletics administrator has filed a motion to have state Judge Beau Higginbotham recused from her sexual harassment case after the judge ordered the plaintiff and her legal team to pay nearly $200,000 in sanctions.
A proposed Plaquemines Parish liquefied natural gas plant is moving forward after a Baton Rouge judge tossed out a lawsuit filed by environmental groups arguing that the project failed to obtain a needed coastal use permit.
A Louisiana district judge has reversed state environmental regulators’ decision to issue 14 air permits that were key to the development of a 2,400-acre plastics and chemical manufacturing complex in St. James Parish.
Four plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit against the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, alleging that the board’s recently approved redistricting maps split precincts in violation of Louisiana law.
A Baton Rouge judge granted the Louisiana insurance commissioner’s motion to liquidate Lighthouse Property Insurance Co. late last month, marking the fourth insurer insolvency in the state in the wake of the 2020 and 2021 hurricane seasons.
As promised, civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the congressional redistricting map approved by the state Legislature but vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards.
A Youngville couple has filed a class-action lawsuit against homebuilder D.R. Horton, alleging their home has been beset by design and construction defects that led to water intrusion and rampant toxic mold.
A private Baton Rouge water company is suing to stop groundwater regulators from putting a metering system in place to monitor Baton Rouge-area industrial water users.
A Baton Rouge judge who is suing his 19th Judicial District colleagues over their decision not to assign him civil cases is alleging that his fellow judges may be using public funds inappropriately to pay their defense attorneys.
Gov. John Bel Edwards this week overruled a legislative committee’s rejection of a rule requiring K-12 students to get the COVID-19 vaccine during the 2022-23 school year, prompting other state officials to file a lawsuit in East Baton Rouge.
Dillard Department Stores has sued the Louisiana Department of Economic Development (LED), alleging that the department reneged on an oral agreement to provide $3.5 million as part of a deal to bring an Amazon warehouse to Baton Rouge.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has filed a lawsuit in state court objecting to the approval of a mixed-use development in Baton Rouge near a local temple.
A two-year-long legal battle over the proposed incorporation of St. George in East Baton Rouge Parish may be moving closer to a resolution, with a trial expected to take place early next year.
The family of a middle school student in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System has filed suit against the district, alleging that school officials failed in their obligation to protect the student from repeated bullying and physical attack.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana reported the following activities in the suit brought by Halona Leger against Hudson Insurance Company, Tennessee Steel Haulers, Inc. and Tevin L McInnis on April 29.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals last month filed suit against Louisiana State University, alleging that LSU failed to respond to PETA’s repeated public record requests for information about bird experiments carried out by a faculty member.
