Federal Courts

A federal judge in Baton Rouge is set to hear oral arguments next week in a challenge to a new state law that makes it a criminal offense to knowingly or intentionally come within 25 feet of a working police officer after being ordered or asked to step back.

A federal appeals court panel is maintaining a 1992 deal that resulted in Black representation on Louisiana's highest court.

Top male professors at Tulane University School of Medicine created a "long-standing hostile and discriminatory work environment" for the women…