An Alabama man who said he tripped and broke his hip while buying a watermelon at a Walmart store has won a $7.5 million judgement in a lawsuit against the retail giant.
Edwards' predecessor, Republican Bobby Jindal, filed the federal lawsuit in 2014, as he was readying his failed bid for the GOP presidential nomination.
Where do the rights of a professor end and the rights of a student begin? Are educators supposed to teach for real world situations or are they highly educated baby sitters? A fired LSU professor is taking the issue to court.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A new lawsuit is challenging Gov. Bobby Jindal's executive order that aims to give special protections to people who oppose same-sex marriage.
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana, the Forum for Equality Foundation and six New Orleans residents filed the lawsuit on Tuesday, seeking to make Jindal's order unenforceable...
The Lafayette Parish School Board has to consider covering legal debts that have recently diminished the school system’s 2015-16 legal fee budget.
The board will vote at the Feb. 7 meeting to approve a $200,000 budget revision that the Lafayette Parish School System staff that would cover legal fees incurred from June through December...
Former Lafayette School System Superintendent Dr. Pat Cooper said he was grateful to the people of Lafayette for allowing him to serve as the leader of the school system, but he made it clear he would appeal his termination all the way to the Louisiana Supreme Court if necessary.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A state district judge has postponed until mid-November a decision on whether he intends to shut down the flow of money to 33 charter schools authorized by the state education board.
The Louisiana Association of Educators filed a lawsuit challenging the $60 million in spending through Louisiana's public school financing formula...