A Louisiana attorney who told a New Orleans judge, two days into trial, that he could not competently represent a defendant in a child-rape case was jailed Tuesday, apparently for…
A prominent Louisiana attorney has given up his law license after being accused in a civil suit by his former law firm of misusing or misappropriating a seven-figure sum of…
A trial to determine BP’s liability for the Gulf oil spill has been pushed back until January, giving the company more time to reach a deal with litigants not covered…
A wolf hybrid that had been given the death penalty by a Louisiana judge over its aggressive behavior got a reprieve Tuesday after a state prison warden suggested an alternative…
A disbarred Kansas lawyer has been sentenced to 15 days, with credit for time served, and released, after allegedly trying to bring three 9mm bullets into the Hale Boggs Federal…
After hearing wrenching testimony from both sides, a federal judge in New Orleans on Wednesday imposed stiff sentences on four of the five former police officers convicted in a post-Hurricane…
A Louisiana district attorney can’t hire a receptionist laid off at his former private law firm, because doing so could provide an economic benefit to the firm by reducing its…
The state of Louisiana’s bid to file a lawsuit over the counting of illegal immigrants in the 2010 Census has been turned aside by the U.S. Supreme Court.
New Orleans police officers will let the public know they are following up on anonymous tips by placing bright orange stickers on homes searched for drugs.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has censured a state-court judge for using the power and prestige of his office to help a niece get a protective order, from another judge, against…
A Louisiana hearing committee has recommended a fully deferred 60-day suspension for an attorney who failed to detect that a lawyer he employed in his high-volume real estate practice oversaw…
Supreme Court justices had little patience Tuesday for a New Orleans prosecutor’s argument that exculpatory evidence in a criminal case was not “material” and didn’t need to be turned over…
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