A New Orleans man held in two different state inmate facilities almost four weeks after his official release date recently filed a federal lawsuit against Orleans Parish and state officials.
NEW ORLEANS — A retired New Orleans police captain has been contemplating a defamation lawsuit against an attorney who accused him of tampering with evidence at a murder scene.
NEW ORLEANS – A group of indigent men and women are suing the city of New Orleans and several judges and court officials over what they say is an illegal scheme to incarcerate the homeless.
NEW ORLEANS – A special investigator appointed to root out wrongdoing in the Deepwater Horizon claims program has identified nearly $8 million in fraudulent claims payments he maintains should be returned, yet the judge overseeing the historic case has yet to approve most of the clawbacks. Ex-FBI director Louis Freeh, who was appointed by U.S.
NEW ORLEANS – A court filing last week by BP PLC included what the company deemed a suspicious claim filed by a senior plaintiff’s lawyer as evidence that Claims Administrator Patrick Juneau is unsuitable to oversee the massive oil spill settlement program.
A man who was imprisoned for over 16 years, including 15 years on death row, for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and was later released after being exonerated is suing the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and officers.
After falling off a vessel and a separate trip and fall incident, a Jefferson Parish deckhand is suing his employer for failing to properly supervise and train him.
Larry Flynt's Hustler Club in the French Quarter is claiming that its neighbor, the Utopia Night Club, is threatening to closed down a fire alley in between the two buildings, thus forcing the city of New Orleans to revoke the strip club's license, according to documents filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court.
