Updated: Hurricane Harvey will go down as one of the worst storms in U.S. history. While the cleanup has yet to begin, those needing legal help cannot wait.
After a legislative fix in June for a law that had blocked foreign-born citizens from getting married if they don’t have a birth certificate, the federal judge in Louisiana who…
People who paid bail before trial in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, weren’t released from jail until they paid hundreds of dollars more for pretrial supervision, according to a would-be class action…
Arizona death row inmate Scott Nordstrom lives alone in a room smaller than a parking space. He’s allowed to leave his cell a few times each week to shower or…
At least four lawyers and investigators for the public defender’s office in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, say they were charged with crimes for legal conduct that was part of their jobs,…
A federal magistrate judge has filed a state lawsuit that alleges the Louisiana federal judge for whom she served is mentally incapacitated and unable to manage her own affairs.
A federal judge in New Orleans has granted a preliminary injunction against enforcing a law that kept a foreign-born U.S. citizen from marrying because he has no birth certificate.
Indigent defendants from Louisiana are so poorly served by the state’s public defender system that their right to counsel is being violated, a lawsuit filed Monday alleges.
Unsealed transcripts indicate that a Louisiana federal judge was removed from a case after lawyers alleged she failed to instruct jurors about their duties or to determine their eligibility for…
When an attorney in Louisiana filed appellate pleadings that alleged misconduct by the trial judge in a case, it was the attorney—not the judge—who found herself in ethics hot water…
An investigation called “Operation Twisted Justice” led to the obstruction of justice charge against a former district attorney in Louisiana who heads to federal prison Monday.
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