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…
The former general counsel of a Florida energy company has had his privileges to practice before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suspended after he reportedly helped his company sell…
A Louisiana criminal defense lawyer with a reputation for being feisty and abrasive has lost a federal civil rights lawsuit he filed over a December 2009 scuffle with deputies in…
When a would-be client called James L. Arruebarrena as a mediation conference was about to occur in her federal employment discrimination administrative complaint, the New Orleans employment practitioner says he…
First-year Tulane law student Bruce Reilly has worked as a community activist and organizer, written plays and authored a blog. But he’s getting attention for his criminal past.
Reaching conclusions similar to those of earlier investigators, in the most comprehensive report to date on the cause of disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began on April 20,…
Six young black men who faced potential hefty prison sentences five years ago, as high school students, in a controversial case that led to civil rights protests and substantially reduced…
Finding that there was no legitimate basis for a Louisiana law that makes it a crime for companies not licensed as funeral directors to sell caskets, a federal judge has…
An arrest warrant has been issued for a former Louisiana prosecutor who was a no-show both Monday and Tuesday at his scheduled trial on charges of client theft.
A gay couple is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Louisiana registrar’s decision that prevented them from being listed as the parents on the birth certificate of a…
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