A Shreveport, Louisiana-based Popeyes Chicken franchisee has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that it refused to hire an HIV-positive man because of his disability.
BP Plc was grossly negligent concerning the massive 2010 oil spill that occurred after a deadly explosion and fire at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico,…
A spokesman for the Orleans Parish District Attorney is vowing “appropriate action” after a defense lawyer allegedly scuffled with a prosecutor before a New Orleans judge last Friday.
A lawsuit filed by the state of Louisiana accuses State Farm of steering customers to preferred repair shops for damaged vehicles, in violation of state unfair-practices and monopolies laws.
A Louisiana district attorney set up a website in his name when he was campaigning for election, then let the registration expire after he won a second term in office.
When a former client broke into the small Covington, Louisiana, law office at which Robin Domingue worked as an office manager last summer and began firing dozens of bullets, she…
A New Orleans lawyer has been charged with misdemeanor cyberstalking after allegedly sending a harassing text message to an opponent in a battle over noise regulations.
A New Orleans lawyer who received several marijuana shipments through the mail has been sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to a single charge of money laundering.
In a written settlement agreement concerning the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with a 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, BP agreed to a compensation…
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