November 1, 2018A Louisiana court of appeals will decide whether pipeline companies seizing land under eminent domain are subject to state open record laws. The Advocate reports the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal heard...
November 16, 2018During a pre-trial hearing held Friday morning at the St. Martin Parish Courthouse, Judge Keith Comeaux heard testimony from Kevin Taliaferro, Director of Right of Ways for Energy Transfer Partners,...
November 27, 2018A testy trial over the Bayou Bridge pipeline began Tuesday with an assertion that the plaintiff's share of the land at the center of the dispute is worth only $1.11. ... Read the full piece here.
June 5, 2019...Civil rights groups have already challenged some of the recent state laws. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit in South Dakota over the state’s recently enacted “ Riot Boosting Act ,”...
December 6, 2019... Pam Spees, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said that essentially, all an oil company has to do to claim eminent domain rights is prove that they are an oil company. “In short...
December 19, 2019... Residents in St James expressed frustration that Formosa did not notify community members about the discovery of the sites, particularly before the parish council approved permits in December...
January 9, 2020... The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal in Lake Charles could take weeks or months to decide the case involving the 162-mile-long (260-kilometer) Bayou Bridge Pipeline, attorney Pamela Spees of the...
February 6, 2020... Pamela Spees, the senior staff attorney of Center for Constitutional Rights who petitioned the Parish Council about the graves earlier this month, said her group is working with an independent...
The community organization Concerned Citizens of St. John sued the St. John the Baptist School Board, School District, and superintendent over the school’s refusal to respond to public records...
Updated: January 6, 2021
In June 2021, due to a "terrorism enhancement" that the judge imposed at the prosecution's request, Jessica Reznicek was sentenced to eight years in federal prison. Jessica pleaded guilty to a single...
Updated: November 15, 2021
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