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Oil industry calls coastal erosion settlement authorized by Landry misguided, flawed
Louisiana oil industry representatives and others blasted a multi-million-dollar coastal-erosion settlement authorized Thursday by...
Mar 5, 2021
Landry signs on to coastal lawsuit settlement
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry ruffled the feathers of the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association and the Louisiana Oil...
Mar 5, 2021
Did Jeff Landry Betray Louisiana’s Oil And Gas Industry Yesterday?
The answer to that question, depending on who you talk to, might be yes. Certainly there are people involved in oil and gas, and...
Mar 5, 2021
Louisiana AG Landry Authorizes Settlement Between Oil Company, State
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Thursday he signed off on a deal to resolve litigation involving an...
Mar 4, 2021
AG Jeff Landry signs onto $100M settlement offer from Freeport -McMoran
A lawsuit pursuing financial restitution for damages by a petrochemical company to Louisiana’s natural storm buffer moved forward...
Mar 4, 2021
State AG authorizes $100 million settlement in oil and gas lawsuit
State Attorney General Jeff Landry authorized a $100 million settlement with one of dozens of oil and gas companies accused of destroying...
Mar 4, 2021
Freeport McMoRan agrees to big coastal damage settlement
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The state attorney general’s office today announced a $100 million settlement with Freeport McMoRan after years of...
Mar 4, 2021
La. auto insurance rates likely won’t drop this year despite tort reform promises
It’s unclear when or if auto insurance rates in Louisiana will ever decrease as predicted by business lobbyists and state Insurance...
Feb 26, 2021
AG Jeff Landry didn't report discipline of top aide resulting from sexual harassment complaint
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry chose not to disclose that he had to discipline one of his top deputies following a sexual...
Feb 26, 2021
Second trucking firm files RICO lawsuit to recoup losses in staged accident
NEW ORLEANS – A second trucking company that was scammed during a wide-ranging conspiracy to stage traffic accidents has filed a federal...
Feb 25, 2021
La. State Police: Staff size limits insurance fraud investigations
BATON ROUGE, La. – Lack of staff and information is keeping Louisiana State Police from investigating most of the fraud claims the...
Feb 23, 2021
Buckle Up: Louisiana’s Long Road to Tort Reform Ends with New Measures in Effect
With public appetite for tort reform mounting in recent years, the Louisiana legislature acted and passed the Civil Justice Reform Act of...
Feb 17, 2021
Reverse Lawsuit Sets Bad Example
AG’s threat to sunshine law tempts all agencies to foil citizen access Today the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana has...
Feb 11, 2021
Leading Louisiana good-government group slams AG Jeff Landry's lawsuit against reporter
Attorney General Jeff Landry’s lawsuit targeting a reporter for The Times-Picayune and The Advocate who filed a public-records request...
Feb 11, 2021
Supreme Court extends statewide trial moratorium through March 31 because of coronavirus
There will be no jury trials statewide through March 31 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Louisiana Supreme Court said...
Feb 11, 2021
70-year-old Baton Rouge judge is 'constitutionally barred' from staying in office, panel says
A Baton Rouge judge who reached the state's mandatory judicial retirement age before her coronavirus-delayed election last summer has...
Feb 10, 2021
In staged accidents case, racketeering lawsuit is filed against New Orleans law firm
A New Orleans law firm and one of its members has been hit with a federal racketeering lawsuit over a series of truck wrecks that...
Feb 9, 2021
Three disabled men sue City of New Orleans for decade-long wait to fix curb ramps
Three men with disabilities have sued the city of New Orleans claiming work scheduled nearly a decade ago to construct accessible curbs...
Feb 8, 2021
Donelon: Tort reform effects on auto insurance rates won’t be known for two years
Though tort reform legislation—billed by many lawmakers as a way to lower auto insurance rates for both individuals and...
Feb 3, 2021
After arrest for drunken groping at bachelor party, Louisiana judge suspended
The Louisiana Supreme Court issued a suspension Wednesday for a city court judge who was arrested at his own bachelor party in 2017 after...
Jan 27, 2021
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