LOUISIANA RECORD

NEW ORLEANS – A appeals court has set aside a lower court’s order requiring New Orleans lawmakers to make the city’s purchasing database available for scrutiny to journalists with The Lens.

HARVEY – Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand is facing a civil rights suit alleging that several of his officers used excessive force earlier this year when they wrongly arrested a Marrero senior in connection with a stolen car probe.  

BATON ROUGE — A new guide book is geared toward aiding Americans on how to understand and navigate the Cuban legal system.

BATON ROUGE – Fresh off his failed run for a U.S. Senate seat, Rep. Charles Boustany has dropped his defamation suit against a writer who alleged in a book that the Republican congressman was a client of several prostitutes who ended up murdered.

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana court has declined to vacate a recent award where the arbitrator admitted that a mistaken calculation resulted in one of the party’s receiving a larger award than what they were entitled to or asked for in their original filing.

NEW ORLEANS — Actress Sofia Vergara, who stars on Modern Family, faces a right-to-life suit where her two “pre-embryos” or fertilized eggs are named as the primary defendants.