The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) released its "2020 Legislative Scorecard," highlighting the lawmakers and leaders inside the State Capitol who supported pro-business legislation in both this year’s regular session and the first special session.
Gov. John Bel Edwards met with the Unified Command Group to continue coordinating the state’s response to Tropical Storm Barry and the ongoing flood fight in Louisiana, which has reached day 260.
The following labor-related cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on April 17. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana reported the following activities in the suit brought by Aaron Hughes against Jean Lafitte Harbor on April 17:
SHREVEPORT — The lawsuit filed by the surviving children of an elderly couple who died following a high-speed chase in Shreveport is on its way back to a Caddo Parish court following a recent state appeals court ruling.
NEW ORLEANS – A drilling barge worker recently filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans Division, claiming he was injured while working aboard a vessel owned and operated by Baywater Drilling in waters off of the Louisiana coast south of Lafitte.
NEW ORLEANS – A painter and sand blaster has filed a class-action lawsuit against his former Lafitte employer over allegations that he was not paid at the correct rate for overtime work.
NEW ORLEANS – A boat owner has filed a suit against two individuals and an insurance company seeking damages after an incident on the Barataria Waterway near Lafitte.
