"If H.B. 71 goes into effect, Students will be subjected to unwelcome displays of the Ten Commandments for the entirety of their public school education. There is no opt-out option," the court's opinion reads.
The recent immigration-related arrest shows that ICE is more concerned with targeting all immigrants than with ensuring public safety.
This is far from the first time a cop has shot a dog for seemingly no reason.
The Lone Star State's bill is already facing legal challenges.
Although the AI-generated surveillance of the public has been paused, the program continues to send automatic alerts to the Louisiana State Police and federal authorities.
The lawsuit will hopefully make stringent regulations for nuclear power a relic of the past.
Voters said no to constitutional amendments on juvenile justice, government spending, and more.
Prosecutors claim the case is about coercion. So why isn’t that the charge they are bringing?
Residents of California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin will get hit with the higher taxes.
The law "is not neutral toward religion," wrote Judge John W. deGravelles, who ruled that the law was "facially unconstitutional."
“The separation of church and state appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or Constitution," a top Oklahoma education official said in defense of the state's Ten Commandments decree.
The Biden administration says its new Title IX interpretation is a legitimate reading of the statute, but opponents characterize it as arbitrary and capricious.
Supervised release shouldn't require former inmates to give up their First Amendment rights.
The doctrine makes it nearly impossible for victims of prosecutorial misconduct to get recourse.
"This is an obvious attempt to use our public schools to convert kids to Christianity. We live in a democracy, not a theocracy," one ACLU attorney tells Reason.
A new law will make it much harder to film law enforcement officers in their public duties. Does that violate the First Amendment?
Bans have resulted in what some have called the "whitewashing" of American juries.
Louisiana lawmakers approved a bill to end the testing requirement for florists. Going forward, only a fee will be required.
The war on drugs meets abortion...
At least eight states have already enacted age-verification laws, and several more are considering bills.
Under a legal theory endorsed by the 5th Circuit, Martin Luther King Jr. could have been liable for other people’s violence.
The admission came as the agency pushed for funding. It's a reminder that the cops should spend fewer resources seizing cannabis and more on solving serious crimes.
A lawsuit from the Institute for Justice claims the law violates the Louisiana Constitution.
Even as they attack the Biden administration's crusade against "misinformation," Missouri and Louisiana defend legal restrictions on content moderation.
Criminal justice advocates say the evidence doesn't back up Republicans' claims that Louisiana's landmark 2017 reforms are to blame for violent crime.
The verdict vindicates the constitutional rights that Louisiana sheriff's deputies flagrantly violated when they hauled Waylon Bailey off to jail.
In an apparent case of retaliation by humiliation, Jerry Rogers Jr. was arrested for speaking out about a stalled murder investigation.
School officials in three states are effectively immune from lawsuits over excessive corporal punishment. A Louisiana mother is asking the Supreme Court to step in.
Johnson is a relative newcomer to Congress who has never even chaired a committee, and he is a close ally of former President Donald Trump.
A lawsuit against a Black Lives Matter activist could have a chilling impact on constitutionally protected activity.
The case is just one example of miscalculations that routinely keep Louisiana prisoners behind bars after they complete their sentences.
A federal judge compared Waylon Bailey’s Facebook jest to "falsely shouting fire in a theatre."
Gov. John Bel Edwards has directed the state to review 56 death-row clemency applications after he made comments opposing capital punishment in April.
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The decision supports the notion that victims are entitled to recourse when the state retaliates against people for their words. But that recourse is still not guaranteed.
Only two clemency applications from death row inmates in Louisiana have been granted in the past 50 years.
Eric Parsa died after police placed him in a "prone position" for over nine minutes. Now, the DOJ says that the officers' actions likely violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana have all seen dramatic improvements in reading scores by investing in "science-based" reading instruction.
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
"Comprehensive and accurate records are critical if patterns and causes of harm are going to be identified and corrected," said an attorney representing Louisiana inmates.
"There is an obligation both to incarcerated persons and the taxpayers not to keep someone incarcerated for longer than they should be," a Louisiana district attorney said. "Timely release is not only a legal obligation, but arguably of equal importance, a moral obligation."
"The Town has routinely detained, cited, and forced Mr. Brunet to go to trial to vindicate his constitutional rights, taking the extraordinary step of adopting a boldly unconstitutional local Ordinance to silence him," the complaint reads.
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