The parties in a federal lawsuit challenging the Louisiana Legislature’s approval of a congressional redistricting map concluded their oral arguments last week, leaving Judge Shelly Dick to decide if the plan illegally dilutes the power of Black voters.
Civil rights groups have sent a letter to Gov. John Bel Edwards urging him to veto bills passed by the legislature that they say would fail to expand minority representation in Louisiana congressional districts.
A historic settlement was reached in a lawsuit that ends the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office's long-standing use of fake subpoenas and intimidation to coerce victims and witnesses to do things against their will.
Louisiana lawmakers launched the once-every-decade redistricting process last week during a joint legislative meeting as interest groups pressed for districts that are more racially representative and competitive.
A federal lawsuit filed by a Black New Orleans resident who accuses police officers of making an illegal, racially motivated traffic stop last year is raising new concerns about quasi-public neighborhood security districts formed under state law.
The Jefferson Parish School Board and the family of a fourth-grader who was suspended for briefly moving a BB gun last year during an online class will take part in settlement talks in May to resolve a federal lawsuit.
The state legislature, and not the Louisiana Supreme Court, must decide whether the state should spend more money and resources on reducing the caseloads of public defenders, the high court decided this month.
The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the state of Louisiana for records on a “secretive state panel” that decided which prisoners should be released from state prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a hearing before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month, the ACLU and the Civil Rights Corps argued that Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro and individual prosecutors in his office should be held accountable for sending victims and witnesses fake subpoenas.
Following a lawsuit filed by the ACLU in 2018, which alleged that ICE and Homeland Security were issuing blanket denials of parole, 150 individuals took part in a hunger strike at a Louisiana ICE correctional center.
The ACLU of Louisiana filed a lawsuit on April 8 after an environmental activist was arrested, claiming the arrest was a violation of his First Amendment rights.
BATON ROUGE – A man who was arrested in August after a traffic stop has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the Baton Rouge Police Department is guilty of numerous wrongdoings, including violation of his constitutional rights and putting his life in danger by making him the subject of a manhunt.
A series of lawsuits are being filed on behalf of inmates that have been kept in Louisiana prisons for periods of time, ranging from weeks to years, after their release dates.
A number of lawsuits claim that, despite suffering from a serious health condition that required treatment, Louisiana prisons inmates were instead left to die.
A middle school teacher in Kaplan and the Louisiana attorney general have filed a lawsuit against the Vermilion Parish School Board claiming the teacher was forcibly removed from a school board meeting for respectfully disagreeing.
A Port Allen police officer recently filed a lawsuit alleging the city's police chief subjected him to religious discrimination and created a hostile work environment.
