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George Strickler, longtime civil rights attorney and law professor, dies in New Orleans
A former Tulane Law School professor who spent the better part of his life working to end racial and gender discrimination around the South has died at his New Orleans home after a long illness.
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BP oil spill lawyers avoid class action by unhappy clients
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – Gulf Coast residents who wanted to sue BP over the 2010 oil spill that they said prevented them from finding fish to eat have, for now, lost their effort to form a class action against the lawyers who allegedly squandered that chance.
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BP oil spill lawyer agrees to pay $90K to firm she hired to fight suit from upset clients
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – A lawyer sued by her BP oil spill clients has agreed to pay the bill she racked up defending herself.
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Attorney's lawsuit over his fall off a hotel toilet back to state court after judge flushes defendants' arguments
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – A federal judge has agreed with a lawyer who sued Penn National Gaming over a fall off a hotel toilet that the case should be heard in state court.
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Mass tort lawyers need more practice naming proper defendants, motion says
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – A consulting firm sued by mass tort lawyers is urging a federal judge to throw out the case, arguing they failed to make specific allegations in their lawsuit.
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Baton Rouge asks federal judge to stay out of fight with lawyer over released body cam footage
BATON ROUGE, La. (Legal Newsline) – Baton Rouge officials are defending themselves in a lawsuit brought by the attorney for a man who was strip-searched and had his home entered without a warrant.
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Lawyer sued by former oil spill clients is now sued by firm that did her defense
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - A law firm has brought suit against a former client - a Mississippi plaintiffs firm - for failure to pay and breach of contract.
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Law firm harassed and discriminated against female attorney for being pregnant, lawsuit says
A former Milling, Benson, Woodward LLP attorney sued the law firm in the Orleans Parish District court for allegedly discriminating against her for choosing to have children.
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Challenge filed to personal injury lawyer's case over fall off hotel toilet
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – An employee of New Orleans’ Boomtown Casino Hotel says the personal injury lawyer suing him over a fall off the toilet is pulling some shenanigans to keep the case out of federal court.
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Louisiana high court rejects extended monitoring of judge who groped waitress
The Louisiana Supreme Court turned down a recommendation to extend a part-time Kaplan City Court judge’s judicial probation period that was imposed after he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor crimes stemming from a groping incident at his January 2017 bachelor party.
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Tort reform advocates await Louisiana Supreme Court's study of attorney ad reforms
Legislation aimed at making attorney advertising in Louisiana more transparent and less susceptible to misleading claims took effect this month, but tort reform advocates are now waiting for the state Supreme Court to embrace the new rules.
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Louisiana court decides if businesses can suffer mental anguish
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - A Louisiana construction company allegedly responsible for severing phone lines of three businesses while on contract with the city of New Orleans lost its appeal in a ruling that distinguished “mental anguish damage” from “inconvenience damage.”
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Louisiana finishes in top 5 in 'Judicial Hellholes' report
Despite the recent passage of some civil litigation reforms and COVID-19 liability protections for businesses and health care facilities, Louisiana has earned a spot on the “Judicial Hellholes” list for the eighth year in a row.
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Plaintiffs lawyers reach settlement in dispute over failed Louisiana partnership
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – A disappointing alliance between personal injury lawyers is at the center of a new lawsuit in Louisiana.
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La. lawyer settles lawsuit over $154K in allegedly unpaid bill with Occidental
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – A Louisiana lawyer has settled claims his longtime client – a popular target of lawsuits in the state – failed to pay its final bill.
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After 40-year relationship ends, La. firm says Occidental Chemical hasn't paid final bill
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – A popular target of litigation in Louisiana hasn’t paid its legal bills, says the law firm that used to represent it.
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State judge upholds Edwards' coronavirus orders
A Louisiana state judge affirmed Gov. John Bel Edwards’ recently issued coronavirus orders, including a statewide mask mandate, as she rejected plaintiffs’ arguments that the orders amounted to a legal overreach.
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San Antonio lawyer representing thousands in Deepwater Horizon lawsuit unaware of phantom Gulf Coast clients
Legal fraud on a grand scale involving Vietnamese fishermen emerged in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster
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Tobacco lawyer fighting insurers over coronavirus claims; Industry says pandemics are 'uninsurable'
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – A plaintiffs lawyer who took part in the tobacco litigation of the 1990s is now at the forefront of the next great litigation wave, leading a group representing restaurant employees affected by the coronavirus quarantine as insurers claim rewriting policies to cover pandemics will wreck the industry.
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Gauthier, Houghtaling partner calls insurance companies' rejection of business interruption claims 'morally wrong'
After New Orleans Attorney John Houghtaling, whose law practice represents a number of high-profile restaurant groups, warned his celebrity chef clients that the insurance industry had decided to stonewall business interruption payouts to restaurants, they formed the Business Interruption Group (BIG) to fight back.