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29 Mar 2011, 3:03 pm
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court today overturned a jury verdict and lower-court rulings awarding $14 million to a former Louisiana death row inmate who had sued then-New Orleans DA Harry Connick Sr. after prosecutors neglected to turn over evidence that would have been helpful to his defense. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 8:39 am
The Supreme Court today gave the prosecution a big win in Connick v. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 4:06 am
The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that in order to establish a connection between the patient’s death and the defendant’s medical malpractice, the survivor need only prove that the defendant’s medical negligence resulted in the patient’s chance of survival being reduced. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 12:12 pm
Tuesday, the Supreme Court holds a one-hour oral argument on the biggest class-action lawsuit in decades, involving the job policies of the huge discount retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 9:46 am
Browner's theory, in part because Congress kept rejecting statutory language to that effect.Several states and green groups sued, and the question reached the Supreme Court in 2006. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 5:04 am
Like the authors of the Supreme Court Brief, Ayres also does not mention the Study’s acknowledgment, that “It would be a mistake to over-generalize the results of our Study to conclude that offering free legal assistance is not worth the cost or time, or even that offers of representation make no difference in Massachusetts first-level appeals. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 6:23 am
She argued that the wording of the ancient writ (“habeas corpus”–”you are to have the body”) ought not to influence the outcome of the case: As the Supreme Court has noted, “habeas corpus” is literally a command that the respondent “have the body” of the prisoner with him in court on the return day. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 5:09 am
However, in a 2009 decision (that can be found here: 2009CA1076), the Louisiana Court of Appeals reversed many of the damage awards based on errors of law. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 12:53 pm
The Louisiana appellate court noted that it was "undisputed" that Mr. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 5:32 pm
In the other significant denial of review on Monday, the Court turned down a petition by the Republican National Committee, joined by former Louisiana Republican Rep. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 5:10 pm
" It's a vestige of extreme homophobia that has been mainly struck down by the Supreme Court, but the law remained on the books and serves a new purpose: putting sex workers behind bars as felony sex offenders. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 9:45 am
In this case, the Louisiana Supreme Court has signed on to this goal and is enforcing this idea. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 9:41 am
Supreme Court upheld this decision—shutting the door to rigorous assessment of the environmental threats from spent nuclear fuel. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 7:52 am
The Louisiana Supreme court disagreed. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 3:15 pm
Jackson, a major tobacco case, known in the Louisiana courts below as Scott v. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 9:08 am
The US Supreme Court has issued this orders list following its conference today. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 8:23 am
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the substitution of the estate of a Louisiana police chief for him in the pending case of Fox v. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 9:07 am
Yesterday the Supreme Court of Idaho released its opinion in the case of State v. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 5:55 am
In a recent Louisiana Supreme Court case involvling defendant Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the Court ruled that filing of a Hurricane Katrina Insurance Class Action designated as a class action pursuant to LSA-C.C.P.art. 591, suspends prescription for all members of the putative class until the district court has ruled on the motion to certify the class. [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 8:03 am
The parties determine the chairman from a list of five local attorneys submitted to the Commissioner of Administration by the Clerk of the Supreme Court. [read post]
