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GRETNA, La. (Legal Newsline) - A journalism professor who lost a prestigious job at Arizona State University after being accused of racism by former students on Twitter and in a school newspaper lost her case after a Louisiana appeals court ruled the comments were protected under the state’s anti-SLAPP statute.
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Opponents who sued to stop a $400 million grain elevator project in St. John the Baptist Parish now argue that a financial arrangement with the Port of Louisiana allows the developer to avoid $200 million in local tax liabilities in violation of state law.
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GRETNA, La. (Legal Newsline) – A company that didn’t actually make a lighter that exploded and lit a man on fire can’t be sued as an apparent manufacturer.
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Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson announced an Order temporarily transferring emergency matters from the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal to the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal.
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As an attempted bribery scandal raises a dark cloud over this weekend's runoff for a vacant seat on the Louisiana Supreme Court, tort reform and policy advocates say the state needs to investigate the matter.
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NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana Record) – Two Louisiana state appeals court judges, William J. "Will" Crain and Hans Liljeberg, will face off next month in the race for a vacant Louisiana Supreme Court seat.
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Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson and the Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court have appointed Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal Chief Judge Susan M. Chehardy.
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GRETNA — A Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed an appeal because it “lacked jurisdiction to consider the merits of the appeal,” and remanded a case to the trial court for further proceedings, additionally denying the motion by defendant Capital One N.A., et al, to strike plaintiffs' brief and its motion to dismiss the appeal as moot.
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A nearly half-million dollar judgment in favor of two brothers injured when an ambulance crashed into their truck was not excessive, an appeals court ruled.
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A Louisiana court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss an inmate’s personal injury case against the St. John the Baptist Sheriff’s Department due to lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
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NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a former employee’s disability claims are in fact time-barred.
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NEW ORLEANS — Jones Walker LLP, one of the 120 largest law firms in the U.S., is adding 11 associates to its Louisiana and Texas offices.
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Judge Edward A. Dufresne Jr. is alleged to have denied due process in over 2,500 cases.
