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Five Lousiana law enforcement officers indicted for deadly 2019 arrest of Black driver Ronald Greene

JURIST

A Union Parish, Louisiana, grand jury Thursday indicted five Louisiana State Police (LSP) officers relating to the 2019 death of Black driver Ronald Greene in police custody. Greene died on a roadside in northeast Louisiana, and authorities initially ruled that his death was the result of a car crash.

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New Orleans Police Seek Arrest of Dispatcher Under Novel Criminal Charge

JonathanTurley

She is now accused of criminal malfeasance in office and interfering with an emergency communication. She was charged under Louisiana law with malfeasance in office. What is interesting about the law is how broad the language is. Since I have not seen many of these cases, I wanted to share the underlying law.

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Judge Upholds Negligent Homicide Charge in Deadly Arrest of Ronald Greene

The Crime Report

A Louisiana judge is allowing the most serious charge of negligent homicide to go forward against one of the troopers involved in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, reports Jim Mustian for the Associated Press.

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Another separation-of-powers case, press access to trials, and maritime insurance

SCOTUSBlog

Three terms ago in Seila Law v. LLC involves how to determine the law to be applied under federal admiralty law in a maritime contract case. The district court concluded that, consistent with the contractual choice-of-law provision, New York law governed and barred Raiders’ Pennsylvania-law-based counterclaims.