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A bill to allow the Department of Child and Family Services to restrict the purchase of unhealthy foods with SNAP benefits has been filed for the regular session. Jennings Republican Rep. Troy Romero said because Louisiana is among the unhealthiest states in the country, he’s hoping his legislation will change that.  “And what we’re trying […]

Just last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC , a class action to determine whether workers actively engaged in interstate transportation must also be employed by a company in the transportation industry to be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act.  Neal Bissonnette and Tyler Wojnarowski […]

A judge in Texas has ruled that a federal agency created to help minority-owned businesses must open up its services to all races and ethnicities, including white people.  The Minority Business Development Agency was created in 1969 under the Nixon administration to assist racially and ethnically marginalized groups of people, “including Hispanic and Latino American, Asian Pacific American, African […]

Before I go into the difference between both please be aware that I am not an attorney. The information provided does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice; instead, all information, content, and materials available on this site and/or this article are for general informational purpose. So, during criminal cases, two legal principles […]

South Carolina cannot cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday, finding that doing so would deprive Medicaid patients of their right to choose their provider. The order marks the third time that a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has stopped the state from […]

Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged to challenge what he called voting restrictions implemented by Republican lawmakers that he said were “discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary.”  Garland spoke alongside Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday in Selma, Alabama , at the city’s 59th anniversary of the 1965 civil rights event dubbed “Bloody Sunday,” the day when Alabama police officers beat up voting rights demonstrators protesting […]

A former police officer has been charged with stealing debit and credit cards from people entering a detention center. A victim was able to obtain photos of the person who had made the purchases with their card at a home improvement store and forwarded them to investigators, leading them to identify the person as Babaians. When the arrest was announced last […]

A woman is suing several sheriff’s deputies, accusing them of beating her while she was hospitalized, handcuffed and waiting for a CT scan at an emergency room in California. According to Malia Ashad’s federal lawsuit filed Feb. 1, she was already injured when deputies repeatedly punched her in the head, grabbed her throat and left […]

A masked man robbing multiple Florida pharmacies at gunpoint turned out to be a former state highway patrol trooper, federal prosecutors said. A few weeks before the first robbery, Jesse Rance Moore, 46, of Bell, searched on Google what medications get stolen from pharmacies and looked up pharmacy store hours, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for […]