Louisiana’s attorney general sued the Jefferson Parish School Board, claiming it violated the state’s open meetings law by meeting several times behind closed doors to develop disciplinary policies for students learning remotely.
Read moreAn appeals court in Louisiana upheld the dismissal of Nick Loeb’s suit against actress Sofia Vergara in a fight over two frozen embryos that were created when they were a couple. Loeb couldn’t prove he resides in Louisiana, and it is clear he “blatantly engaged in forum shopping” as he decided to file suit in the state because it views embryos as humans.
Read moreThe Supreme Court of Louisiana ruled that Kaplan City Court Judge F. Stanton Hardee III, who was arrested for getting extremely drunk and grabbing a waitress without her consent at his bachelor party, should be suspended from office for two years with all but six months deferred and pay a $2000 fine.
Read moreAn appeals court in Louisiana granted the West Baton Rouge Parish Council a permanent injunction against landowners to prevent them from interfering with the levee district’s construction of bicycle paths and walkways on top of levees, which are located on their properties.
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More than 160,000 people in Texas and Louisiana remained without power Monday morning after the year’s first winter storm swept through the South over the weekend, forcing dozens of schools and government offices to close.
Read moreA defamation case against the state of Louisiana, its legislative auditor and its state inspector general can continue, an appeals court in the state ruled, finding the defendants are “juridical persons rather than natural persons,” and don’t have a constitutional right to free speech. David LaCerte, the former secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs, claims the defendants wrongfully accused him of criminal conduct in a report and press release.
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Luke Letlow, Louisiana’s incoming Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being sworn into office. He was 41.
Read moreA district court prematurely determined the petition process used by House Republicans in their attempt to lift Covid-19 related restrictions was unconstitutional, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled. The case is remanded and the lower court instructed to rule on all non-constitutional arguments and reach the constitutional challenge “only if such a challenge is essential to resolution of the case.”
Read moreAn appeals court in Louisiana upheld a ruling against the St. Tammany Parish School Board and a school janitor who molested and raped a fourth grade special education student during school hours, finding the school board is vicariously liable for its employee’s actions. The ruling affirms a $350,000 award for damages.
Read moreTwo Gretna, Louisiana, police officers who beat and tased an unarmed man with paranoid schizophrenia — who became unresponsive and died two days later — are not entitled to qualified immunity on excessive force claims, the Fifth Circuit ruled. The man, who was not suspected of any crime, was curled in a fetal position and did not struggle against the officers, called for his mother and pleaded for someone to “call the real police” as he sustained 26 blunt-force injuries.
Read moreAn appeals court in Louisiana reversed a ruling that had declared a former partner in a same-sex relationship the legal parent of the other partner’s biological child. The trial court violated the natural parent’s rights by holding the former partner was a “psychological parent and entitled to joint custody.”
Read moreA state appeals court reversed an abuse of power conviction against the former mayor of Cotton Valley, Louisiana, finding there was no proof he used his position to get a neighboring town to dismiss marijauna charges against him. However, the court found the former mayor was properly convicted of abusing his office for asking for a $500 check from the town clerk.
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The Army Corps of Engineers will temporarily suspend a permit it issued for a $9.4 billion plastics complex in Louisiana as it takes another look at the project’s environmental impacts, government lawyers said in a motion filed Wednesday.
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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards’ decision to prohibit in-house drinking at bars to prevent the spread of Covid-19 came before a Fifth Circuit panel Tuesday afternoon.
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The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Fifth Circuit decision that allowed a Louisiana police officer to sue the organizer of a Black Lives Matter protest for injuries he suffered at the demonstration.
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Leaving millions in the dark, Zeta continued to tear through the South as a tropical storm Thursday morning after making landfall in Louisiana the day before as a strong Category 2 hurricane.
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Hurricane Zeta is expected to make landfall in southeast Louisiana as a Category 2 storm Wednesday afternoon, taking aim at the New Orleans metropolitan area where local authorities cautioned that the draining pump system is not functioning properly.
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The Gulf Coast is keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm Zeta, which is expected to make landfall Wednesday night as a Category 1 hurricane in what has been an unprecedented hurricane season.
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Thanks to a decision Thursday by Louisiana’s Committee on Parole, a 63-year-old Black man will no longer serve a life sentence behind bars for taking a pair of hedge clippers more than two decades ago.
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Hurricane Delta is expected to make landfall Friday night in roughly the same area of southwest Louisiana that was ravaged by Hurricane Laura six weeks ago, leaving in its path downed trees and power lines and knocking out windows and power to hundreds of thousands of homes.
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