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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Louisiana State Bar violated lawyers’ free speech rights, appeals court rules”: Daniel Wiessner of Reuters has this report. Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Louisiana Lawyer’s Rights Violated by Wellness, LGBTQ+ Posts.” ” You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. .”

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JUNE 12, 2022

A US federal judge Friday ordered the state of Louisiana to pay a USD 3.8 In June Medical Services , the plaintiffs challenged seven Louisiana abortion restrictions that were passed in 2016. million “for attorneys’ fees, expenses, or costs arising from the initiation and prosecution of the Litigation.”

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Plessy was arrested in 1892 for deliberately violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, which required “separate but equal” train car accommodations for Blacks and whites. The post Louisiana governor pardons Plessy of landmark Supreme Court case 125 years later appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana and eleven other states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), questioning their authority to issue a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.

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JURIST

JULY 10, 2022

A Louisiana judge has removed a temporary block on the state abortion law , allowing the state to enforce its ban on nearly all abortions. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, following the removal of the order, warned clinics and doctors at the court, “If they continue to operate, they do so under their own risk.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

A recent look into the Louisiana prison system finds about 200 inmates are held beyond their scheduled release dates each month. The practice of “overdetention” is endemic in Louisiana and costs the state $2.8 McNeal is one of the thousands of Louisiana people held each year past their release date.

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APRIL 28, 2023

I spent more than 40 years in the Louisiana penal system—from December 1965 to April 2006. I was transferred from the “parish jail” to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in November 1966. On January 22, 2022, attorneys for the McArthur Justice Center, based in San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.,

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Their cases are about the failure of justice in the Louisiana criminal justice system. I know Louisiana justice. Both were committed to the Louisiana prison system with life sentences. Henry was committed to the Louisiana State Penitentiary when the prison—more commonly known as Angola—was the “bloodiest prison in America.”.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

A woman who became pregnant after she was raped while underage lost custody and has been ordered to pay child support to her rapist by a family court in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, in one of the most egregious cases victims’ advocates say they have ever seen, the WBRZ Investigative Unit reports.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 26, 2022

Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ) will pause its plan to move youth from a juvenile facility to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, until at least Sep. The lawsuit challenges the office and Louisiana Gov.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Louisiana officials have moved eight youths from beleaguered state-run juvenile facilities and into the West Feliciana Center for Youth, a facility on the grounds of the State Penitentiary at Angola, reports James Finn for The Advocate.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 22, 2023

After months of searching and an investigation that has spanned multiple states, Ella Goodie’s case has now been turned over to the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office for review in Louisiana, Crystal Stevenson reports for American Press.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2022

The Louisiana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in the case of Reginald Reddick, who is serving life in prison in Louisiana for second-degree murder, even though two jurors at his 1997 trial found him not guilty, reports The Guardian. Almost anywhere else in the country, he would have been acquitted.

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JURIST

MAY 30, 2021

The Louisiana House of Representatives Thursday passed the controversial Senate Bill 156 requiring schools to designate athletic teams and sporting events based on the biological sex of the team members. The bill now moves to Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards to be signed into law.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 2, 2022

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has agreed to a request from state lawmakers that he and his top attorneys testify before a bipartisan committee investigating allegations of a cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene, reports the Associated Press.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

In a major victory for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Texas and Louisiana do not have a legal right, known as standing, to challenge a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. Share This article was updated on June 23 at 2:19 p.m.

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The Crime Report

JULY 29, 2021

The judge began offering the alternative earlier this week, amid a surge in case numbers in Louisiana. Louisiana is among states with the highest daily reported cases per capita in the nation. In that time, roughly 19,000 cases have been reported in the state.

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LegalReader

JUNE 6, 2022

Many homeowners in Louisiana have complained to their attorneys that the insurance company adjusters misclassified the damage to their homes.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Louisiana is a third-party liability state with regard to truck accidents and follows the pure comparative negligence rule.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A group of Republican attorneys general Monday asked to join ongoing litigation over a Trump-era border policy that fast-tracks the deportation of individuals captured at the US-Mexico border. The post Republican attorney generals join lawsuit in support of pandemic-era expedited deportations appeared first on JURIST - News.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Louisiana , the Supreme Court ruled that states could only convict defendants of serious offenses with a unanimous jury verdict. Law firm asks justices to consider the scope of attorney-client privilege for dual-purpose documents. Louisiana bars Puerto Rico from continuing to authorize non-unanimous acquittals. In Ramos v.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 12, 2022

In 1997, the state of Louisiana charged Nathaniel Lambert with three aggravated crimes: burglary, rape, and “crime against humanity.” Louisiana did not resentence Lambert until 2018, over 18 years later. Louisiana that the state’s practice of convicting people of serious crimes without a unanimous jury vote was unconstitutional.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2022

The states of Texas and Louisiana brought a lawsuit challenging this memorandum, which led to US District Court for the Southern District of Texas Judge Drew Tipton vacating the memorandum in June. Attorney General of Georgia Chris Carr joined 19 other attorneys to urge the Supreme Court to stop the memorandum from taking effect.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2021

Dominion Voting Systems sued Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani Monday for defamation following his post-election statements regarding their voting machines. States including Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania have introduced legislation to review and reassess their contracts with Dominion.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Tractor trailers and tankers who have shifting or cargo loads that are not secured properly can end up in rollover or jackknife situations on Louisiana roadways, specifically on Interstate 10.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Monday affirmed a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana blocking the White House’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors. In response to the ruling, Louisiana Attorney General Landry stated, “Today is a victory for freedom.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 10, 2022

Royce Duplessis, a New Orleans Democrat who chairs the juvenile justice oversight commission filed a bill that would restrict the use of solitary confinement in juvenile facilities to four hours at a time, require authorities to promptly notify the youth’s parents and attorney and require the juvenile justice agency to track its use.

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The Crime Report

MAY 26, 2021

A Louisiana student placed on probation for sexual assault transferred to a new campus where he was again reported for alleged offenses, but the information was kept secret despite a state law requiring universities and law enforcement to share information about alleged sex crime perpetrators, reports USA Today.

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HowAppealing

JULY 3, 2021

“Fifth Circuit: Texas Lawyers Don’t Have to Join State Bar and Pay Dues; The State Bar of Texas engages in political activities that fall outside the scope of its interests so it cannot force attorneys to join it and pay mandatory dues, the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday.” Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Attorneys general in 40 states Monday announced a $391.5 While the settlement ends the present lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a new lawsuit against Google last month for allegedly collecting biometric data on millions of Texans without their informed consent. The post Google reaches $391.5M

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MARCH 18, 2021

An attorney for the McGlothen family say Shreveport officers knew that Tommie McGlothen had a mental health condition--but nonetheless proceeded to beat him and abuse him until death.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The lawsuit, filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, claims that the Biden administration "colluded" with social media companies to restrict Americans' free speech by limiting the spread of COVID-related misinformation.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed the suit, calling the mandate “unlawful and unconstitutional.” Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced today that he will also file a lawsuit with Louisiana and Mississippi asking the federal government to overturn the mandate.

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The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

The attorney representing Greene’s family said the footage provided more evidence that the troopers’ actions had led to Greene’s death, which is currently under investigation by the FBI and other federal agencies. According to the footage, one trooper wrestled Greene to the ground, put him in a chokehold and punched him in the face.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The opposition to clemency hearings is being led by Louisiana’s far-right attorney general, Jeff Landry, who has argued for reintroducing the electric chair, hangings and firing squads and faces accusations of trying to gut the operations of the pardon board.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The petition to challenge the mandate was submitted by the Republican Attorney Generals from Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah. Unvaccinated employees must submit weekly negative Covid-19 tests, or they will be proscribed from entering the workplace.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A former police officer was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for his role in assaulting an arrestee during a pursuit in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, and his attempts to cover up his misconduct, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. Attorney Brandon B. Brown represents the Western District of Louisiana.

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