Ernie Svenson--aka well-known blogger Ernie the Attorney--was an early evangelist for what he calls The Paperless Chase. The basic premise: "Anything you can do with paper, you can do more with PDF. Way more."
A unidentified Muslim woman said she was humiliated by being told to wait outside a Louisiana courtroom to pay a ticket at a traffic hearing this week because she refused…
At their first sentencing, four New Orleans police officers involved in shooting a group of unarmed civilians on Danziger Bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina got prison terms…
The defense lawyer for a former district attorney in south Louisiana is crying foul after authorities called his client a “sexual predator” at a press conference and said he had…
A Louisiana lawyer who criticized the prosecution of another lawyer who shot himself during trial should not have been suspended from federal court practice for speaking out, a federal appeals…
A jury was selected and opening statements were made Monday in the federal corruption trial of a longtime former Louisiana district attorney on charges that he misused campaign money.
In the latest development in an ongoing Louisiana public defender funding crisis, a New Orleans judge on Friday froze the cases of seven inmates charged with serious felonies— including rape…
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Arthur Hunter Jr., Photograph by Kathy Anderson.
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A federal judge in New Orleans on Monday gave the final OK to an estimated $20 billion settlement by BP concerning a massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.
The American Bar Association is backing calls by Louisiana public defenders and the chief justice of the state’s supreme court to provide adequate funding for the representation of indigent defendants.
A court in suburban New Orleans is requiring some Hispanics to enroll in expensive English classes as a condition of probation, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Last month, a federal appeals court in New Orleans refused to block a Louisiana law that could close three of the state’s four abortion clinics, staying an injunction issued…
The U.S. Justice Department has reached a proposed agreement with the city of Ferguson, Missouri, to reform its police department and its municipal courts.
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Arthur Hunter Jr., Photograph by Kathy Anderson.
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