NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court Monday declined to review last year’s decision by a federal judge that expanded early voting and mail balloting in Louisiana during last fall’s presidential election.
Reports that the Supreme Court, which all but asked for the job in its 1993 opinion in 'Shaw v. Reno,' must now decide how far it wants to go in monitoring state efforts to create House districts in which majority voters predominate. Ruling which came from a special panel of federal ...
tested in some cases on unsuspecting people in the real world…still shows the razor thin line between a world in which people can move around with relative anonymity, to one where your identity and personal information can be pulled up in an instant by[armed] strangers [with the power to ...
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - The Louisiana Supreme Court cut a $10.5 million jury verdict in an asbestos lawsuit in half, saying an analysis of whether a jury abused its discretion must include an examination of awards in similar cases. ...
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Decisions are now awaited in same-sex marriage cases in the Sixth and Ninth Circuits. So far, the Fourth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits have struck down bans in five states; those are the rulings that have so far reached the Supreme Court....
The cases could be among the last to be heard in federal court before the nation's highest court decides the issue on its merits. The justices were meeting privately Friday to consider adding new cases to their late April argument session, and a decision could be announced soon. ...
. Besides compiling other cases on this topic, it reminds us that Article 2126 “is not jurisdictional, but is a procedural vehicle designed solely for the efficient administration of the court.”Id., p. 5. Its purposes are “to dismiss the appeal as abandoned, in those cases in which ...
Karl Rove– Senior Adviser to President George W. Bush, investigated in connection with a number of cases of improper political influence. Resigned in April 2007. Attorney GeneralAlberto Gonzales– resigned rather than to testify under oath about the firing of 11 U.S. attorneys for prosecuting Re...