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A Louisiana-based bank has filed a $36 million lawsuit against an historic West Virginia hotel and resort owned by the state’s governor who is running for U.S. Senate.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) recently introduced legislation that would stop foreign entities and governments from funding litigation in American courts.
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Anti-trust reform has long been one of the answers politicians give in response to the question about how to rein in Big Tech with regard to accusations of them blocking conservative viewpoints.
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Gov. Edwards and DOTD Praise U.S. Senate for Passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
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Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy and Gov. John Bel Edwards are making a bipartisan push to convince the Biden administration to rethink its moratorium on new oil and gas leases.
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Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy has little to lose in joining with several other Republican U.S. senators to challenge the presidential election results in key swing states, a Louisiana political science professor said Monday.
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President Trump signed into law today the “Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act,” a $484 billion additional coronavirus aid package that will add more than $300 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of the CARES Act, including $60 billion for loans to be made by small financial institutions such as banks and credit unions.
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Gonzales, a certified public accountant and a former tax associate of the national tax practice of Ernst & Young in New York, has joined Taylor Porter as an associate and as a member of the Firm’s tax and estate planning practice.
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NEW ORLEANS – State Supreme Court Justice Greg Guidry will fill an opening in the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Louisiana following a recent U.S. Senate confirmation vote.
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According to WBRZ, the U.S. Senate has passed a four-month reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance program.
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NEW ORLEANS – President Donald Trump recently nominated New Orleans attorney Peter Strasser as his choice for U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana
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NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana Record) — Gretna attorney and former juvenile court Judge David L. Bell has been suspended following a March 16 Louisiana Supreme Court attorney order a little more than a year after a grand jury indicted him for allegedly participating in a Jefferson Parish auto theft ring.
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Opelousas attorney and former state Sen. Elbert Lee Guillory has been publicly reprimanded following a Sept. 6 Louisiana Supreme Court Order after acknowledging he neglected a client's legal matter.
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A Louisiana government watchdog activist said she hopes the U.S. Senate will pass legislation that will crack down on attorneys who siphon off of damage claims for people who suffer from work-related asbestos exposure.
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It is no secret that frivolous litigation filings have skyrocketed in recent years. As more and more personal injury lawyers seek to use and abuse our legal system, Americans have grown tired of paying the costs and have begun calling for reform. Fortunately, Congress is listening.
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MADISONVILLE — The son of U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) may have landed in legal hot water for an alleged party held at a neighbor's house.
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BATON ROUGE – Fresh off his failed run for a U.S. Senate seat, Rep. Charles Boustany has dropped his defamation suit against a writer who alleged in a book that the Republican congressman was a client of several prostitutes who ended up
murdered.
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LAFAYETTE — Republican John Kennedy emerged from the crowded primary for the Senate seat left vacant by departing Republican David Vitter with advantages over Democrat Foster Campbell as they head into the Dec. 10 runoff.
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NEW ORLEANS – Former Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz will pay $55,000 to a music-licensing start up firm, Audiosocket, for alleged copyright infringement and breach of a licensing agreement.
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that he will choose one of the names on his previously announced “shortlist” of 11 judges to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last February, which includes a judge from the South.
