Prosecutors are trying to force a New Orleans lawyer to testify about text messages exchanged with a jailed client as evidence the client was using a contraband cellphone.
A former chief deputy for a suburban New Orleans sheriff says he was fired for objecting to secret videotapes that routinely recorded conversations during attorney-client meetings in a sheriff’s office…
Possibly concerned that he faced a potential 15-day sentence if he tested positive for drug use, a defendant in a Louisiana criminal case allegedly tried to smuggle a condom filled…
Louisiana’s top court has put an end to a bitter dispute over the judge assigned to hear a courthouse vault cocaine-smuggling case against a former court clerk’s office employee who…
Once upon a time, a clothesline was a standard feature of most back yards. But concern that publicly airing clean laundry attached with clothespins to a rope or wire was…
Timothy Upton usually doesn’t go home for lunch. But the Louisiana lawyer did on Tuesday, a decision he credits for saving his life when a disgruntled former client broke into…
Saying that he believes a plaintiff’s signature on a legal representation document concerning the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was forged, a federal judge in New Orleans nixed attorney fees…
A Louisiana judge has struck down a state law barring gun possession by certain felons, citing a conflict with a state constitutional amendment that took effect on Jan. 1.
In the latest win for the Institute of Justice in a “rational basis” economic regulation case, a federal appeals court has agreed with a trial judge that the state of…
Summarily fired by the presiding judge after he failed to appear for a double murder trial last week because of a conflicting murder trial in another court, a Louisiana lawyer…
A federal judge in New Orleans began hearing opening statements Monday in a trial to determine how to apportion blame between BP Plc and its subcontractors for the massive oil…
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