NEW ORLEANS – Justice Lab, the ACLU of Louisiana’s campaign against racist policing, marked its third anniversary this summer, litigating its 55th case. Founded in June 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, Justice Lab works through litigation...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today lifted a temporary halt on a federal lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s discriminatory congressional maps. The action sends the case, Robinson v. Ardoin, down to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for further consideration...

BATON ROUGE — The ACLU of Louisiana, American Civil Liberties Union, Legal Defense Fund (LDF), law firm Cozen O’ Connor, and Louisiana attorneys Ron Wilson and John Adcock filed a motion today to lift a stay in a federal lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s discriminatorily drawn state...

NEW ORLEANS – ACLU of Louisiana Justice Lab clients have requested the U.S. Supreme Court review a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which ruled that the Louisiana State Police (LSP) should not be held liable for failing to intervene and protect peaceful protesters...

BASTROP – The ACLU of Louisiana, alongside Covington & Burling LLP, secured an offer of judgment in a civil rights lawsuit against the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office (MPSO). The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Ms. Tamekia Olive, a Black woman who was threatened, unreasonably seized, and...

NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana and Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP – on behalf of their client Mr. Timothy Watkins – and the City of Hammond, Louisiana, today reached a settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit...

HOUMA – The ACLU of Louisiana has defeated qualified immunity for the fourth time. This time, against the Louisiana State Police (LSP), overcoming the enormous legal challenge in a lawsuit that also names the Houma Police Department and the Terrebonne Police Department.

COVINGTON – The ACLU of Louisiana has again defeated qualified immunity, an enormous legal challenge, in a lawsuit against the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office (STPSO) for racially profiling and harassing an unarmed Black man.

THIBODAUX – The ACLU of Louisiana and Fish & Richardson announced a settlement on behalf of Mr. Yohann Jackson, a Black man suffering from cerebral palsy who was violently detained by three Thibodaux police officers at his own home.