In a win for landowners, Bayou Bridge Pipeline said it will stop construction of its crude oil pipeline through 38 acres of private property in Louisiana after an owner filed for an injunction to halt the project.
Read moreAttorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and public defenders seemed to agree before the Fifth Circuit on Monday that a waiting list for representation in Louisiana violates poor defendants’ rights to a speedy trial and assistance of counsel.
Read moreOrleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman says The New York Times defamed him and his office in a July 9 video op-ed in which a former jail inmate claims he was raped and sold into sexual slavery for $20 in commissary items.
Read moreThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers properly approved construction of a pipeline through the largest river swamp in North America – authorizing the destruction of acres of old-growth trees – a divided Fifth Circuit ruled Friday.
Read moreShell Offshore spilled 80,892 gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, which covered 1,270 square miles in the first five days, in May 2016, the United States and Louisiana claim in a federal complaint.
Read moreA group of Southern environmental groups claims the Louisiana black bear is in danger after the U.S. Department of the Interior booted it from the endangered species list.
Read moreCiting the states’ long histories of suppressing the right to vote among their black voters, an organization headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder sued three states in the Deep South, accusing them of using gerrymandering to dilute the strength of their black voters.
Read moreA Fifth Circuit panel listened Monday to arguments over why a Louisiana charter school with a mostly white student body should be allowed to stay open in a mostly black town without adhering to a decades-old federal desegregation order.
Read moreTwenty protesters, two of whom were arrested, stopped construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline through a Louisiana coastal zone Thursday while demonstrating against continued construction despite a state judge remanding the permit.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency’s Gulf of Mexico program has awarded $285,744 to help restore swamp and forest habitat near New Orleans.
Read moreA Louisiana man who served more than 20 years in prison after being convicted of killing a pizza man as an intellectually disabled 16-year-old was released from prison Tuesday.
Read moreConstruction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline through sensitive coastal lands continued Monday despite a state judge’s ruling that the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources illegally issued a permit for it.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a lawyer for a criminal defendant cannot ignore his client’s wish to maintain his innocence at trial, even if the lawyer’s aim is to avoid a death sentence.
Read moreAttorneys for Louisiana asked the Fifth Circuit Thursday to uphold a state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital — a law that opponents say could limit abortions statewide to one doctor at one clinic.
Read moreAttorneys for former Louisiana prosecutor Walter Reed argued before a Fifth Circuit panel Tuesday that he did not misuse public money and asked the appeals court to throw out his corruption conviction.
Read moreEnvironmental groups urged a Fifth Circuit panel Monday to act quickly to stop a pipeline company’s clearing of old-growth trees in an ecologically rare Louisiana swamp.
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Greenpeace on Tuesday reported that Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco, which are building the controversial Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana, are among the worst polluters on record.
Read moreLouisiana will not bring criminal charges against two white police officers involved in the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a black man, which sparked widespread protests two years ago, the attorney general’s office said Tuesday.
Read moreConstruction of a pipeline through delicate wetlands in Louisiana that was halted last month over the possibility of irreversible harm to the environment can resume, a divided Fifth Circuit panel ruled Thursday.
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