BATON ROUGE -- Wednesday, April 20, marked the six-year anniversary
of the fatal explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and subsequent oil spill that
sent millions of gallons of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Six years later, the legal and environmental ramifications live on.
NEW ORLEANS — Longtime New Orleans resident Connie Jones Marable last week was awarded $51.5 million as part of a lawsuit filed by her adult children against Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) LLC, among others, in what her lawyers say is one of the largest awards of its kind in Orleans Parish Civil District Court.
NEW ORLEANS — An African-American man is suing the parish of Plaquemines and other government entities, alleging they violated his civil rights by arresting him unlawfully.
BATON ROUGE – With the state recently taking over more than 39 lawsuits brought by three parishes against oil and gas companies, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resource is waiting to see what -- if any -- money it will receive from the litigation to restore coastal wetlands lost to erosion.
BATON ROUGE – With only three months to go until the Republican National Convention, frontrunner Donald Trump seems to be feeling the tension as he looks to collect the necessary 1,237 delegates to secure the party’s nomination for president.
BATON ROUGE — As John Pierre became more interested in legal higher education, he started to see the importance and impact graduates of the Southern University Law Center have in the state, as they take jobs in public affairs, business and nonprofits.
BATON ROUGE – The Mother’s Day 2013 beating of a St. Francisville man outside a north Baton Rouge gas station is unfortunate, but not the fault of gas companies that provide fuel to the gas station, a Louisiana Oil & Gas Association (LOGA) spokesman said in a recent interview.
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana State Attorney General Jeff Landry has severed
ties with district attorneys who were previously contracted to provide legal
services to the state under private contract.
NEW ORLEANS – A Jefferson Parish woman says her employer fired her after she turned the company in for allegedly making false Medicaid and Medicare claims.
BATON ROUGE – The cash-starved Orleans Parish public defenders' office is being sued after allegedly placing poor people connected to crimes on a "waiting list" and leaving them without access to lawyers.
BATON ROUGE — For years John Baker, professor emeritus at Louisiana State University, told people that he feared his good friend, the energetic and hard-driven Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, might succumb one day as a result of the justice’s active lifestyle and vigorous commitment to his beliefs about the Constitution.
As the St. Bernard Parish Council contemplates filing lawsuits against energy companies for alleged damage to fragile wetlands and other areas near drilling sites, the president of the Louisiana Oil & Gas Association says any such litigation is simply a "money grab."
NEW ORLEANS — Cameron Parish filed at least 11 lawsuits against more than 100 oil and gas companies on Monday in what is a "litigious legal system," according to the president of one of the state’s trade associations.
The St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office is hoping to get a whistleblower’s civil lawsuit six years in the making dismissed before a district judge on March 8.
NEW ORLEANS – The impact of a Louisiana Supreme Court decision in favor of Kenner firefighters in a pension case is not yet clear, but may herald favorable outcomes for plaintiffs in similar cases, an attorney with the law firm who represented the firefighters said in an interview.
New Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards is under pressure to address the three high-profile lawsuits left behind by Former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
NEW ORLEANS – A Jefferson Parish man says the company he hired to prepare his divorce petition and related documents, 1Eighty Labs, illegally did so because it is not licensed to practice law in the state of Louisiana.
