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Louisiana College president plans to defy Affordable Care Act
Louisiana College President Joe Aguilard PINEVILLE – The president of a North Louisiana Baptist-affiliated college has vowed to defy provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that would require the school to provide certain "emergency contraceptives" under their employee health plan. -
Local church accused of not serving milk with lunches paid for by federal food program
Pastor Herbert H. Rowe, Jr. NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans-based church has been targeted by a federal nutrition assistance program for not serving milk with lunches served through a food program. -
NOPD officer named in assault and battery lawsuit
NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans woman has filed suit against the city for mistreatment she claims to have received at the hands of police officers. -
Oil spill claimants who avoided litigation won't have to pay attorneys
Barbier NEW ORLEANS - Plaintiffs attorneys will not receive 6 percent of settlements from those claimants who settled their oil spill claims without resorting to litigation. -
DOJ objects to 6% attorney reserve in BP litigation
Barbier NEW ORLEANS – The Department of Justice burst an $840 million bubble for the Plaintiff Steering Committee in Deepwater Horizon litigation, wrecking their plan to reserve 6 percent of settlements at BP's Gulf Coast Claims Facility. -
BP and Transocean want evidence of U.S. government's role introduced in oil spill litigation
Underhill NEW ORLEANS – Deepwater Horizon operator BP and rig owner Transocean, trading blame for last year's oil spill, aim to drag Uncle Sam into the dispute. -
Rig workers who pleaded the Fifth settle claims with Transocean
Miller Deepwater Horizon rig owner Transocean and five workers settled personal injury suits that the workers undercut by pleading Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination. -
Transocean wants explanation from rig workers invoking the Fifth
Miller Five Deepwater Horizon workers must explain how they can pursue personal injury claims against rig owner Transocean while they plead Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination, U.S. Magistrate Sally Shushan ruled on Sept. 27. -
Government delays document production in BP litigation; Napolitano lacks email is cited as one reason
Napolitano NEW ORLEANS – Homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano lacks an electronic mail account, the Obama Administration offers as one of many excuses for delays in producing documents about the Deepwater Horizon explosion. -
Transocean wants claims of five who took Fifth dismissed
Miller NEW ORLEANS – Deepwater Horizon oil rig owner Transocean claims workers hid behind the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about their injuries. -
Florida lawsuit against GCCF removed to federal court
Feinberg A Florida state lawsuit against Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) Administrator Kenneth Feinberg has been removed to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. -
Plaintiffs challenge GCCF's OPA compliance filed in BP oil spill MDL
Feinberg A motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana claims that the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) fails to comply with the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) in how it administers payments to victims of the 2010 BP oil spill. -
Assistant attorney general files racial discrimination lawsuit after losing job
A former assistant attorney general has filed a racial and gender discrimination lawsuit against the state that claims she was terminated after making a complaint about gender-based pay discrimination. -
Cameron and Dril-Quip argue for jury trials in oil spill litigation
Wittmann Two lonely little voices plead for U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to hold jury trials in litigation over the Deepwater Horizon explosion. -
BP to pay $1 billion for Gulf Coast restoration
Federal officials announced today that BP will pay $1 billion to fund various activities to help restore Gulf Coast habitats and wildlife. -
Oil exploration companies want stay vacated so drilling can begin
Feldman On March 15, four days before U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman would have required him to issue permits to oil and gas explorers, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and won a stay. -
DOJ looking into manslaughter and perjury charges against BP, report says
The Associated Press reports that the Department of Justice could possibly levy charges of manslaughter and perjury against BP and other companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon oilrig explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. -
BP directors say shareholders should sue in England
Thomas HOUSTON – BP shareholders suing individual directors over the Deepwater Horizon explosion should have sued in Great Britain, according to the directors. -
Feinberg questions Barbier's authority over claims facility
Pitofsky Some say BP hired Kenneth Feinberg as chief of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, and some say President Barack Obama hired him, but Feinberg fears he works for the Department of Barbier. -
Feinberg says GCCF is OPA compliant
Feinberg Attorneys for the administrator for the Gulf Coast Claims Facility has fired back at plaintiff and government lawyers who have been critical of him, stating that the BP oil spill claims process is in full compliance with the Oil Pollution Act.