A longtime Loyola University New Orleans School of Law professor who is credited with making Louisiana women equal partners in their marriages died Saturday. Janet Mary Riley was 92.
Updated: Two Louisiana lawyers who traded barbs and got into a short physical altercation during a court proceeding have landed in trouble with the state attorney discipline board.
In his first 12 weeks on the job, the new Louisiana attorney general says he has been busy dealing with (and, in some cases, dismissing) a number of civil actions…
Within hours of a federal court ruling that a Louisiana school district violated the First Amendment by allowing Gideons International to pass out pocket bibles to fifth-graders last May, a…
A New Orleans federal judge is revealing more details of the disciplinary case against him and is seeking release of a secret dissent to an impeachment recommendation.
The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled today that the levee breach damage caused by Hurricane Katrina was clearly a “flood” and is excluded from insurance coverage.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision yesterday emphasizing the importance of eliminating racial bias in jury selection, according to the lawyer for a black murder defendant who won…
One of the defendants in the “Jena Six” case that sparked national civil rights marches last year has been arrested over an incident at his new high school in Texas.
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