A Louisiana abortion law requiring doctors who perform the procedure to have credentials to enter nearby hospitals is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 5-4 decision.
Read moreA federal judge denied request from a Livingston Parish (La.) sheriff’s detective and district attorney to dismiss a lawsuit from a man whose death-penalty conviction was vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court. They allegedly intimidated a 14-year-old boy into giving false testimony at trial.
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Two environmental activists with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade bonded out of jail Thursday evening after being arrested on felony terrorizing charges that stem from a December incident in which they left a sealed box containing plastic pellets on the doorstep of an oil and gas lobbyist.
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A judge in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” on Thursday affirmed his ruling granting a restraining order to allow citizens to enter a newly discovered slave burial site to pay homage to their ancestors for one hour on Friday, Juneteenth.
Read moreHoly Fights Ministries sued Louisiana and Livingston Parish in federal court, claiming their ban on cockfighting violates religious freedom.
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Cristobal weakened to a tropical depression Monday morning, after crashing ashore as a lopsided tropical storm Sunday in Louisiana and ginning up dangerous weather farther east, sending waves crashing over Mississippi beaches, swamping parts of an Alabama island town and spawning a tornado in Florida.
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Guilty verdicts from split juries will face a Supreme Court reckoning after the justices agreed Monday to hear an appeal by a Louisiana man sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, rape and robbery.
Read moreA federal court in Louisiana granted in part a diabetic inmate’s request for a temporary restraining order, finding that staff at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, must comply with internal policies and the governor’s recommendations about disinfecting common areas, wearing masks, and implementing social distancing measures to limit the spread of Covid-19.
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At least five people were killed Wednesday when tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana
Read moreResolving an anomaly in how the Bill of Rights has been applied to the states, the Supreme Court held Monday that a jury’s verdict must be unanimous to convict someone of a serious crime.
Read moreA court clerk’s policy of turning off fax machines at 4:30 p.m. improperly shortened a tort complainant’s one-year prescriptive period, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled, finding that statute doesn’t impose hourly restrictions on fax filing. The complainant had attempted to fax a petition before midnight on the last day of the prescriptive period to file for damages relating to injuries sustained in a car accident.
Read moreTexas state troopers set up checkpoints along the Louisiana border Sunday, stepping up enforcement of Governor Greg Abbott’s order for travelers from Louisiana to self-quarantine for 14 days as the state has become the next hotspot of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreA federal court denied a request by prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, to stop the Department of Corrections from transferring Covid-19 “carriers” to maximum-security prison, finding that the request is based on “speculation and conjecture” about what the department “‘might’ do with respect to transferring inmates.”
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Louisiana’s governor said Thursday afternoon that a 42% increase in coronavirus cases reported between Wednesday and Thursday is likely the result of delays from commercial tests that are typically performed at drive-thru sites, indicating the people getting tested are generally healthy enough to avoid hospitalization.
Read moreHundreds of worshippers attended services at a Louisiana church on Sunday, flouting a ban on large gatherings, angering neighbors and seemingly turning a deaf ear to their governor, who once again warned that hospitals could soon be overwhelmed with new cases of the coronavirus.
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The weather was lovely, the carnival celebration was lively and lasted for weeks, the floats hand-decorated and impressive. Excitement, cheer and a feeling of love for community, music and drink was in the air. But so was an invisible foe.
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Construction of a Taiwanese company’s $9.4 billion plastics complex in Louisiana began this week, despite a stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the coronavirus and high water levels that make construction near levees illegal.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement kept an asylum seeker with disabilities in solitary for months after he requested accommodations, immigration advocates claim in an administrative complaint accusing the agency of violating federal disability laws.
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