NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The White House says the president plans to nominate a Louisiana Supreme Court associate justice for a seat on the U.S. District Court in New Orleans.

News outlets report the White House announced Wednesday that President Donald Trump plans to nominate Associate Justice ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Retired Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Pascal Calogero Jr., who retired in 2008 after the longest tenure on the court in state history, died at the age of 87.

Calogero died Thursday, according to a news release from the court.

He was elected to four terms, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The head of a powerful Louisiana business lobbying group is urging companies that operate in multiple states to pursue refunds for taxes paid under a 2015 law that has been declared unconstitutional.

Stephen Waguespack, president of the Louisiana Association of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 2015 law that scaled back an income tax break Louisiana allows for taxes paid to other states was unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled, striking down a change that raised more than $30 million a year for the state budget.

Two part-owners of multiple ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Supreme Court has denied an appeal from a man sentenced to death for the slaying of 4-year-old girl in 2001.

The American Press in a Friday

MANSFIELD, La. (AP) — A legal dispute over whether the Louisiana Legislative Auditor can access a sheriff’s department personnel files will remain in northwest Louisiana.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld a man’s conviction of aggravated rape in a decades-old case.

The American Press reports ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans ordinance limiting street art sales to two parts of the French Quarter violates the right to free speech, the Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled.

The 5-2 decision Friday came in the case of Lawrence Clark, who was ticketed in 2016 for showing art for sale in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld a life prison term for a man convicted of severely beating another man at a convenience store five years ago after telling the victim he was in the “wrong neighborhood.”

Donald Ray Dickerson, of Baton Rouge, was found guilty in ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man has been re-elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court after his only challenger was disqualified for not filing tax returns.

NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reported Tuesday ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Just days after the state’s high court ordered a new trial, a New Orleans woman convicted of murdering her abusive husband has received a bond low enough to get out of jail.

The Louisiana Supreme Court on Wednesday voted 6-1 for a new trial in Catina Curley’s case. The ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former prosecutor and Louisiana Supreme Court staffer will be the first black executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana.

The New Orleans Advocate

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A scaled-back financing plan for the Louisiana Supreme Court won passage in the House on its second try Monday, after lawmakers pledged that additional money might be added to the budget as they continue negotiating over taxes.

The House voted 84-1 for

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — More than 30 charter schools created by Louisiana’s education board can continue to receive financing through the state’s public school funding formula, after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a union that argued the payment method was ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The director of the Division of Children and Families at the Louisiana Supreme Court is one of 59 people nationwide chosen for a national leadership program.

The court said in a Wednesday news release that Alanah Odoms Hebert (AYE’-behr) was selected for the Presidential ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana woman has pleaded guilty to enriching herself at the expense of the state’s highest court.

A news release from New Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro says 38-year-old Misty Corb of Mereaux pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of identity ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Defense lawyers told Louisiana Supreme Court justices Tuesday that a new trial should be granted for a man convicted of joining a New Orleans police officer in the slayings of three people, including another officer, during a 1995 robbery.

Rogers LaCaze was convicted of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate an eight-year prison sentence for a man convicted of vehicular homicide charges over a crash that killed five people in 2011.

In November, a state appeals court reduced David Leger’s conviction to ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has put a hold on a hearing about New Orleans’ mayor-elect while considing whether the judge should step aside.

State Attorney General Jeff Landry has subpoenaed Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell’s personal bank records.

She won 60 percent of ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans attorney has been appointed to temporarily serve as an Orleans Parish Civil District Court judge.

The Louisiana Supreme Court said in a news release Wednesday that it appointed Henry P. Julien Jr. to fill the vacancy created by Judge Tiffany Gautier Chase’s ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Just weeks after Wilbert Jones was exonerated and released from prison after serving nearly 46 years for rape, prosecutors have asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his conviction.

Multiple media outlets report East Baton Rouge Parish prosecutors Friday urged the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana Supreme Court justice disqualified himself Tuesday from a death row inmate’s appeal after a talk radio interview in which he cited the man’s case in expressing support for capital punishment.

Justice Scott Crichton didn’t specify a reason for his recusal ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A biased autopsy and a prosecutor’s racism and religious fervor corrupted the murder case against a black man freed from Louisiana’s death row, a federal lawsuit says.

Rodricus Crawford, 29, sued the Caddo Parish coroner and district attorney’s offices last ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court won’t consider re-imposing the death penalty for a man serving life for the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in 1985, when he was 21.

John Francis Wille (WIL-lee) was originally sentenced to death for first-degree murder in the death of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A judge in Louisiana has thrown out the conviction of a man serving a life sentence for the 1971 rape of a nurse, ruling authorities withheld evidence that could have exonerated him decades ago.

Wilbert Jones’ attorneys on Tuesday asked the judge to order his ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Did the suspect ask for a lawyer dog? Or did he call a detective “dog,” while seeking a lawyer?

A Louisiana Supreme Court justice appears to side with the canine lawyer interpretation.

Defense lawyers say the confession of Warren Demesme, 24, in a New Orleans rape ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a Louisiana dirt farmer who complained that a local flood control district took his soil without paying enough for it.

The justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place a Louisiana Supreme Court ruling against Chad ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court says it won’t hear an appeal from a man convicted of killing a French Quarter dancer and dismembering her body.

All seven justices initialed the “action sheet” denying the request from Terry Speaks, who is serving life in prison for the 2012 ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A man accused of shooting a pastor who was preaching in his southwest Louisiana church is pleading not guilty to manslaughter.

KPLC-TV reports that Woodrow ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man connected to a 1995 triple slaying involving a former New Orleans police officer has been given a chance at a new trial.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated a Louisiana Supreme Court decision that upheld the first-degree murder convictions of Rogers ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The suspension of a former New Orleans public defender who pleaded guilty to stalking her boss’s wife will end in December, according to an opinion the Louisiana Supreme Court released Friday.

Trisha Ann Ward had been on interim suspension since early last December, ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The former mayor of a Louisiana city has won a new trial on a malfeasance charge.

Leslie Thompson is the former mayor of Jonesboro in north Louisiana. He was convicted in 2013 on three counts of malfeasance. In one count, prosecutors said he illegally denied the state ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a story July 8 about a former Louisiana Supreme Court worker embezzling money, The Associated Press reported that Misty Wood was an administrator of the Louisiana Supreme Court. The story should have made clear that Wood had actually been employed as the payroll and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has reinstated a man’s kidnapping conviction in the disappearance of a woman authorities believe was killed after stealing cocaine from a drug dealer.

Chadwick McGhee was among four people convicted of kidnapping Jessica Guillot (GEE-oh) in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A man serving a life sentence for the 1971 rape of a nurse is getting a court-ordered hearing to determine if authorities withheld evidence that could exonerate him.

In January, Innocence Project New Orleans attorneys had asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to order a ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana Supreme Court justices are weighing whether a jury was right when it convicted a man for his role in the kidnapping of Jessica Guillot, an Avoyelles Parish woman not seen since September 2013, when authorities believe she was kidnapped and killed after stealing ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An exhibit about the oppression of Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany is coming to New Orleans.

″Lawyers Without Rights : Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich,” features hundreds of photographs, documents and ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office says it will not retry a man in the February 2012 death of his 1-year-old son after the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed the conviction.

Rodricus Crawford was sentenced to death in the death of Roderius Lott. In his ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State financing will keep flowing to more than 30 Louisiana public charter schools next week, under a late Friday ruling from an appellate court.

The court ruled this month that money from Louisiana’s public school funding formula can’t pay for charter schools ...

OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Louisiana has a new member of the state Supreme Court.

Republican Jimmy Genovese, formerly an appeals court judge, was sworn in Tuesday to the seven-member high court at a ceremony in his hometown of Opelousas. He’ll represent Louisiana’s 3rd District, covering the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Following years on death row, a Louisiana man has been released on bail after his murder conviction and sentence in the death of his 1-year-old son were overturned.

Deputy Jakenzie Bryant at the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office says Rodricus Crawford posted bail Tuesday ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana Supreme Court justice has revived a legal battle against four of his colleagues, arguing in federal court that they illegally removed him from two environmental cases against oil companies because of campaign contributions he received, through political action ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the conviction and death sentence of a man whose case drew national attention to the state’s use of the death penalty.

In its decision , the court said it was sending the case of Rodricus Crawford back to a lower court ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction and death sentence of a man whose case drew national attention to the state’s use of the death penalty.

In a decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court said it was sending the case ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With an often bizarre presidential race and a 24-candidate election for the U.S. Senate on the November ballot it would be easy to overlook that a Louisiana Supreme Court position is up for grabs.

But somebody has noticed. As of last week the two candidates for the only ...