Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has ruled against Alabama's defense of an electoral map drawn by the state's Republican-dominated legislature. Black voters had challenged the law as racially discriminatory.

As the Supreme Court’s term wound down, its slate of conservative justices cast a shadow of uncertainty over the future of federal environmental protection — a move that environmental and legal experts say could have wide-ranging effects in industry-friendly states like Louisiana.

The Supreme Court won’t block the Biden administration’s consideration of planet-warming emissions in rulemaking, declining to hear an appeal from Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.

Louisiana is at the center of a lawsuit against the Biden administration over how much planet-warming emissions cost society.

While nothing officially changes until the Supreme Court delivers its decision, advocates on both sides of the issue are preparing for an end to legal abortion.

As restrictive abortion bans take shape across the nation and legislative battles make their way to the highest court, protesters on Saturday gathered in their respective cities, including New Orleans, to march for reproductive rights as part of the Women’s March movement.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry added Louisiana to a legal brief that supports a Mississippi law banning abortions after fetuses reach 15 weeks gestation.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it would not apply a 2020 ban on future non-unanimous jury verdicts in felony cases retroactively, leaving incarcerated people in Louisiana, Oregon and Puerto Rico convicted by divided juries without a sure-fire way to seek retrial.

The U.S. Supreme Court has struck a Louisiana anti-abortion law nearly identical to one deemed unconstitutional in Texas four years ago, in a landmark…

The US Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to take another look at the case of the endangered dusky gopher frog and some protected habitat in…