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The ruling Monday by Judge Thomas Rogers allows the most serious charge of negligent homicide to go forward against a trooper captured on body-camera video dragging Greene by his ankle shackles.

Louisiana’s near-total ban on abortions is — once again — on hold after a judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the law from being enforced until a hearing takes place.

The legal battle to determine the boundaries of Louisiana’s congressional districts is now taking place simultaneously at all three levels of the federal judiciary, and the parties involved are fighting on multiple fronts. The decision comes down to whether Black voters will hold a majority in one or two of the state’s six U.S. House districts.

CourtWatch NOLA has been gathering data on the Orleans Parish criminal justice system. The group found problems that include locking up poor people for…

A nonprofit monitoring New Orleans courts says that more than 10 years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed evidence kept in a basement that flooded,…

Two members of families shattered in the Danziger Bridge shooting 11 years ago say they can live with seeing police officers who opened fire that day have…

Last month the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration opened the Gulf of Mexico for fish farming, or aquaculture. Now, some fishermen and…

The way our criminal justice system works, there’s a significant cost to just being accused of a crime. Innocent or not, one way or another, you still…

A New Orleans expert on Constitutional law says the death over the weekend of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia leaves an enormous void in the nation’s…

Louisiana is among 29 states which filed a lawsuit against the federal government, saying new environmental regulations are too extensive and costly.The…