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The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an application by energy companies to change the venue of a multibillion-dollar coastal erosion trial set to begin Nov. 27 in Cameron Parish.
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Attorneys for energy companies accused of billions of dollars in coastal erosion damage in Cameron Parish have asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency action and change of venue.
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A Jefferson Parish woman is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to alter a judicial precedent in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi that makes public school employees and managers essentially immune from liability when they engage in “unlawful corporal punishment.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court last month declined to put a hold on a federal appeals court decision that potentially delays a resolution to a lawsuit calling for a second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana.
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - BP and Shell have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit by a Louisiana parish over coastal flooding, saying they can’t get a fair trial in a place where any jurors know they have the opportunity to pump billions of dollars into their troubled local economy by ruling against the oil companies.
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The case alleges that Youtube, Twitter and Facebook acted as arms of the federal government
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Louisiana parishes’ coastal erosion lawsuits against energy companies advanced a step closer to being tried in state courts last month after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the companies’ petition to send the cases to federal courts.
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The U.S. Supreme Court last week dashed the hopes of voting-rights groups that challenged Louisiana’s congressional redistricting map drawn up by the state Legislature for not including a second majority-Black district.
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The disclosure during the Jan. 6 Committee hearings this month that state Attorney General Jeff Landry was considered for a “special counsel” post to investigate election fraud in the 2020 election likely won’t hurt his future political aspirations.
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A New Orleans attorney’s civil lawsuit challenging the state requirement that all attorneys pay annual bar association dues to practice their profession entered the trial stage this week in federal district court.
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The Louisiana Legislature on Saturday ended its special session on congressional redistricting without producing a map with two Black-majority districts, as a federal district judge overseeing litigation about the issue instructed lawmakers to do.
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The Louisiana Attorney General’s Office has lost its bid to overturn an appeals court ruling allowing the Biden administration to apply its climate-change rules for calculating the social costs of greenhouse gas emissions (SC-GHG).
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The Louisiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week about whether a U.S. Supreme Court’s finding that non-unanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional should apply retroactively to 1,500 Louisiana inmates.
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Federal energy policy changes made in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine likely won’t result in more energy development in Louisiana, even as gasoline prices continue to spike, industry officials say.
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Steve Herman, Participant in Federal Bar Association Mock Oral Argument Cle, “Harvard Admission Standards: Constitutional or Not?”
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AG Jeff Landry Continues Fight For Healthcare Heroes.
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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.
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Louisiana business groups expressed relief after last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision blocking the Biden administration from implementing its rule requiring 84 million workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine or face a testing regimen.
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The plaintiff in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson has been pardoned by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards in what he said was a symbolic step toward equality and justice.
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Jerry Glas Featured in Cover Story of Louisiana 2022 Super Lawyers.
