Gov. John Bel Edwards tossed a political hot potato back to the state Legislature last week when he vetoed the lawmakers’ proposed congressional district boundaries for the decade ahead.
New Orleans area residents pay $2.2 billion annually in excessive civil court costs, resulting in a “tort tax” of $2,763 per person and job losses of nearly 35,000, according to a new study from Louisiana Lawsuit Abuse Watch (LLAW).
A class-action lawsuit that claimed judges in Louisiana's 19th judicial circuit left “innocent people confided in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison simply because they are too poor to pay for their freedom,” has been settled, WAFB reported.
With the Louisiana legislature set to open its annual session on Monday, business groups are urging lawmakers to hit the reset button on the state’s Unemployment Insurance Fund, which has seen its fortunes depleted during the coronavirus pandemic.
Legislation that would establish state regulations for the leasing of offshore wind energy sites in the Gulf could be counterproductive due to a provision allowing the state to get a cut of the revenues generated, according to advocates for wind energy.
Plaintiffs who sued New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and other city officials over the city’s COVID-19 masking policies and its vaccine mandates are declaring victory after New Orleans announced it is relaxing the measures this month.
The latest iteration of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Louisiana State University and former athletics officials accuses LSU running backs coach Frank Wilson of repeated inappropriate behavior toward female students and workers.
A Louisiana appeals court has sided with a former Lafourche Parish president in his lawsuit seeking more than $180,000 in back pay, effectively ending a three-year-old legal dispute.
A private Baton Rouge water company is suing to stop groundwater regulators from putting a metering system in place to monitor Baton Rouge-area industrial water users.
Bobby Sneed is finally a free man after spending roughly 50 years in prison and then proceeding to fight for his release after initially being granted parole.
City-issued vaccination and mask mandates will remain in effect at least through Mardi Gras, following the denial of a request asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to issue a temporary restraining order last month.
Civil rights groups have sent a letter to Gov. John Bel Edwards urging him to veto bills passed by the legislature that they say would fail to expand minority representation in Louisiana congressional districts.
A federal judge’s recent decision to overturn a section of a presidential executive order that called for monetizing social carbon costs in federal actions will lead to delays in future oil and gas drilling, according to a court filing on Saturday.
A district judge has rejected a lawsuit alleging a Louisiana nonprofit mishandled donated funds for search-and-rescue operations in the wake of a liftboat disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last year.
The co-owners of 160 acres of Louisiana property are not entitled to a share of a pipeline company’s profits even though the company’s pipelines were constructed partially outside of the locations agreed to in a contract, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The Louisiana attorney general scored a win against the Biden administration last week when a federal judge agreed that a presidential executive order attempting to monetize social carbon costs in federal actions was executive overreach.
A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled against three medical students who alleged that a Monroe college violated a previous consent decree allowing the students to continue their studies while unvaccinated for COVID-19.
Though a task force has just released a plan to help Louisiana reach its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the state’s energy sector is warning that oil and gas will remain an essential commodity for decades to come.
A Baton Rouge firm that leases apartments and condos has begun offering some tenants an option to pay lower rents in exchange for agreeing to be evicted in the event of a future eviction moratorium, such as the one put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Louisiana judge’s lawsuit against his 19th Judicial District colleagues over seniority rules and civil court assignments was dismissed last week after a special judge concluded judges are immune from being sued over such administrative actions.