Lawsuits News on Louisiana Record

Amid ongoing litigation over chemical emissions and school desegregation, the St. John the Baptist Parish school board has voted to close an elementary school located about 450 feet from a petrochemical plant.

After a year of successes and some setbacks, advocates of tort reform in Louisiana are observing Lawsuit Abuse Awareness Week to inform the public about the economic consequences and household costs of excessive litigation statewide.

A military museum director at Louisiana State University is mounting a legal counter-offensive against an unsuccessful Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate, Doug Mastriano, arguing that the GOP state senator’s defamation lawsuit against him should be dismissed.

Louisiana jury awards exceeding $10 million over the years 2009 to 2023 amounted to a total payout of $9.97 billion, making the Bayou State sixth in the nation in terms of the combined value of these so-called “nuclear verdicts.”

The New Orleans City Council has moved to temporarily escrow the city Law Department’s operating budget, suggesting that the number of civil actions filed by the department may be excessive and that the council is not being consulted about legal filings.

An East Baton Rouge court last week disqualified a New Orleans law firm from representing the Louisiana Board of Pardons as a result of conflict-of-interest allegations in an ongoing legal dispute over an effort to grant clemency to death-row inmates.

Tort reform advocates highlighted their concerns about Louisiana’s legal climate during Lawsuit Abuse Awareness Week beginning on Oct. 2, with grassroots groups trying to drum up support for legal reforms in the governor’s race and among voters around the state.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has taken legal action against Governor John Bel Edwards, accusing him of disregarding the regulations set by the Board of Pardons. In a lawsuit filed on September 20th, Landry argued that the Governor's actions did not adhere to the proper eligibility and notice rules, timeliness requirements, and necessary steps of the process. The lawsuit specifically targeted the scheduling of Clemency hearings for 20 violent offenders who had previously been convicted and sentenced to the death penalty. These hearings were set to take place in...

A top Louisiana environmental official farmed out responsibility for enforcing state permitting regulations that underlie ongoing coastal erosion lawsuits to a private attorney, according to a deposition made public through a public-records request.

NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) — A law firm alleges two of its former attorneys downloaded client data and attempted to solicit them prior to their resignation.

Louisiana had the sixth highest share of personal injury lawsuits per capita among the 50 states during the year ending March 31, with 16.71 lawsuits being filed per 100,000 residents, according to a Florida law firm.

In the wake of a series of severe hurricanes and a single law firm’s mass filings, the Western District of Louisiana handled the most insurance cases of any federal district court in the nation during the past three years, according to a report released this week.

A Federal Trade Commission lawsuit challenging New Orleans-based LCMC Health’s acquisition of three regional hospitals as a possible antitrust violation has been transferred from Washington, D.C., to Louisiana.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has put the brakes on hundreds of hurricane-related property insurance lawsuits filed by the Houston law firm of McClenny, Moseley and Associates (MMA) and appointed a trustee to oversee the mass litigation.

NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) — A Louisiana couple allege a law firm negligently negotiated an insurance dispute settlement without allowing them to ever meet with an attorney.

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.

State officials are ending their litigation against thousands of Louisiana homeowners who failed to comply with the terms of grants awarded after Hurricane Katrina to protect their damaged homes from future flooding.

Two large Louisiana health care networks have been hit with class-action lawsuits contending that their websites covertly shared private patient data in violation of state law.