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NEW ORLEANS — Longtime Hammond attorney James A. Dukes, who has been convicted of stealing at least $186,000 from a client, has been indefinitely suspended following a Jan. 8 Louisiana Supreme Court order.
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We are excited to announce the completion of our New Orleans office's new space in the Place St. Charles building!
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NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana Record) — Longtime Baton Rouge attorney Carl Binus Duke Jr., who represents clients in traffic court, has been indefinitely suspended following a July 31 Louisiana Supreme Court order and his arrest last month for DWI and other charges after a high-speed chase.
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The following cases categorized as "personal injury" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on July 15. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana reported the following activity on July 15 in the suits below:
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The following cases categorized as "personal injury" cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on July 12. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana reported the following activity on July 12 in the suits below:
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana reported the following activity in the suit brought by James Smith against BP Exploration & Production, Inc. on July 12.
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana reported the following activity in the suit brought by James Smith against BP Exploration & Production, Inc. on July 15.
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Multidistrict litigation – sprawling cases sometimes involving thousands of plaintiffs from all over the country – now represents more than half of the civil caseload in federal courts, according to a new survey, yet defendants complain the rules governing them are largely judge-made and haphazardly enforced.
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BATON ROUGE — The inverse condemnation claims of Louisiana property owners along the Sabine River downstream of the Toledo Bend Dam has been revived and will remain in state court following recent appeals.
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BATON ROUGE — After years of litigation, ExxonMobile remains fully liable for injuries of at least six of the thousand of plaintiffs who filed suit in Baton Rouge City Court following the 1993 fire at the East Coker Unit at ExxonMobil's refinery,a recent ruling by Louisiana's First Circuit Court of Appeal said.
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NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans Civil District Court Judge Clare Jupiter has passed away due to complications from a stroke, according to The Times-Picayune.
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The First Circuit Court of Appeal on April 13 dismissed an appeal filed by O’Neal Bosley and Bosley’s Driving School in response to a lawsuit Bosley filed in an attempt to prevent the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections from permanently revoking the company's licenses to teach driver’s education.
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NEW ORLEANS — The family of Judge Clare Jupiter, of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court, confirmed last week that she is ill and in the hospital, although they did not give specifics of her illness.
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NEW ORLEANS – An Orleans Parish woman claims that her child was attacked by a school employee/supervised volunteer.
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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.
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NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration wrote a letter to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals asking for 24 hours advance notice before it releases a decision in the Confederate monument removal case.
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NEW ORLEANS — Former state alcohol and tobacco control commissioner Troy Hebert, who is running for the Senate, asked a judge to force Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) and the Council for a Better Louisiana (CABL) include him in an upcoming debate despite his failure to meet participation requirements.
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BATON ROUGE – Legal counsel for the parents of a 32-year-old Zachary man who died after being tased by Baton Rouge police last summer must show that the tasing was "the substantial cause" of his death to prevail in the lawsuit against the city's police department, a New Orleans attorney said.
