SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 1, 2022

After she lost the arbitration, Badgerow sued in Louisiana, asking a state court to vacate the arbitration award; Walters removed the suit to federal court and asked that court to confirm the award. The issue for the justices was whether the federal court had jurisdiction to decide whether the award should be confirmed or vacated.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

By night he drafted court documents for judges to sign. Bonin failed to do this in the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in Louisiana. But that wasn’t his only job. He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. By day he prosecuted criminal suspects and opposed prisoner appeals. Judge Paul A.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The project will include the drafting and adoption of security policies, an audit of current technology usage and needs, and the development and implementation of a staff training plan. Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corporation’s $32,359 grant will allow it to work with an expert to assess and improve the security of its technology.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The draft items that are scheduled to be voted on at that meeting should be posted to the FCC website by the end of January. Reply comments will be due by March 14. See the Federal Register notice, here. The FCC will hold a required monthly meeting on February 18.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 24, 2024

Several of those facilities will be located in Texas and Louisiana on or near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, making them easily accessible to ships carrying carbon dioxide from overseas. It primarily examines how key states—North Dakota, Wyoming, Louisiana, and Texas—have implemented provisions under the SDWA.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2019

Stations with those due dates should be prepared to upload their Public File Reports by February 1 if the FCC’s Public Inspection File database is up and operating by then.

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Fordham Law News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These implications stem from Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), a standardized set of business laws that has been fully adopted in every state but Louisiana. [8] 16] Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code, Draft For Public Comment, at 3 (Aug. 6] which make up 20% of El Salvador’s GDP. [7] 9-310(a). [13]

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The project will include the drafting and adoption of security policies, an audit of current technology usage and needs, and the development and implementation of a staff training plan. Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corporation’s $32,359 grant will allow it to work with an expert to assess and improve the security of its technology.

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JURIST

JUNE 23, 2022

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards Tuesday signed a restrictive abortion bill which could go into effect as soon as Roe v. Wade, which it is expected to based on a leaked draft opinion , the new law will go into effect immediately. The post Louisiana governor signs restrictive abortion bill into law appeared first on JURIST - News.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Army Corps of Engineers moved for voluntary remand without vacatur and dismissal in a case challenging a Section 404 dredge-and-fill permit for a new petrochemical plant in Louisiana. The court concluded that the Freedom of Information Act’s deliberative process privilege shielded the redactions from disclosure.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

In 1892, Homer Plessy, a mixed-race resident of New Orleans, violated Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, which required “equal, but separate” railroad accommodations for white and non-white passengers. The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to throw out the charge against Plessy, his case ended up before the U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2022

States like Colorado , Louisiana , and Missouri specifically prioritize those who have less than five years on their sentences. ” Last month, the Education Department released the draft regulations for restoring Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students by July 2023.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

FERC’s newly announced draft Certificate Policy Statement proposes a shift in the Commission’s approach to assessing the need for new pipelines to ensure it is aligned with the requirements of the NGA. This necessitates a broad-ranging review in which FERC must consider the need for pipeline development and weigh its benefits and costs. .

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2025

Share It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisianas latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to reinstate a congressional map, enacted by the Louisiana legislature last year, that created a second majority-Black district.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

A federal district court in Missouri put the rule on hold for 10 states, while a federal district court in Louisiana did the same for 14 other states. Several challenges to the rule followed.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

As attorney general, he ordered a moratorium on federal executions, helped draft the Voting Rights Act and Fair Housing Act, and refused to enforce a provision of federal law involving confessions by criminal suspects because he believed it undermined the Supreme Court’s 1966 decision in Miranda v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2022

The new task force formalizes a team that has been monitoring the legal landscape for reproductive care in the months following a leaked draft that showed abortion rights protected under Casey v. Planned Parenthood and Roe v. Wade were set to be overturned. Many big law firms have joined a trend set by large U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Russo , striking down a near verbatim abortion provision requiring that doctors obtain admitting privileges as a condition to perform abortions in Louisiana. In that case, Chief Justice Roberts joined the liberals in voting to strike down the requirement.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

I also think that Kennedy’s role in drafting and promoting legislation in the Senate, such as the Immigration Act of 1965, along with civil rights and health legislation, amounts to a legacy greater than that of some of the presidents of his era. Harlan dissented in all those cases. He really wrestled with the facts. In Plessy v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2023

President Jimmy Carter in January 1977 pardoned hundreds of thousands of Vietnam-era draft dodgers President Ronald Reagan in April 1981 pardoned two crooked FBI agents who ordered the break-ins of the homes of suspected radicals to gather incriminating evidence against them.

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JURIST

MAY 28, 2022

The US Supreme Court in a one-sentence order Thursday denied an application by Louisiana and other Republican-led states to prevent President Joe Biden’s administration from continuing to take account of the “social costs” of increasing greenhouse gas emissions when federal agencies draft new regulations.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday left in place an order by a federal appeals court canceling a hearing intended to draw a new congressional map for Louisiana. In June 2022, the district court blocked Louisiana from using its congressional map and gave the legislature 14 days to create a new map, including a second majority-Black district.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The court said the petitioner’s comments on the draft and final EIRs concerning the analysis of greenhouse gas emissions were not sufficient to exhaust administrative remedies. Army Corps of Engineers’ issue of a Section 404 permit under the Clean Water Act for a new petrochemical plant on the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Federal Court Blocked Biden Administration “Pause” on New Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to prepare a draft recovery plan for the jumping mouse by the end of January 2022, and to finalize the plan by the end of January 2023. Federal Court Directed Department of Interior to Search for Drafts of Zinke Order Rescinding Moratorium on Coal Leasing Program. Continental Resources, Inc.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

In Louisiana, a federal court enjoined the administration from carrying out its halting of gas and oil leases, finding that Biden’s unilateral action violated the separation of powers under the Constitution. These losses constitute an inauspicious start for any administration.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2021

Academics have debated this poorly drafted law for decades. The 1876 presidential election between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden threw the country into a crisis when electoral votes from South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida, were challenged. If that is true, this challenge and prior challenges by Democrats are unconstitutional.

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

The move allows KPMG to greatly expand its legal offerings, for example, into services such as drafting and updating contracts and reconciling legal materials in merger-and-acquisition deals. The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday granted the accounting giant final approval to obtain a license to create its own firm, KPMG Law.

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