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Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict-Punitive Damages, Wrongful Death, 2025

Brief • October 21, 2025

Filed under: Wrongful Death, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)

Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict-Punitive Damages, Wrongful Death, 2025 Case 3:16-cv-01007-TAD-KDM Document 670 36634 Filed 10/21/25 Page 1 of 1 PageID #: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA MONROE DIVISION ERIE MOORE JR ET AL CASE NO. 3:16-CV-01007 VERSUS JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY LASALLE CORRECTIONS …

Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict, Wrongful Death, 2025

Brief • October 20, 2025

Filed under: Wrongful Death, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)

Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict, Wrongful Death, 2025 Case 3:16-cv-01007-TAD-KDM Document 664 36616 Filed 10/20/25 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: RECEIVED USDC, WESTERN DISTRICT OF LA DANIEL J. McCOY, CLERK UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA MONROE DIVISION ERIE MOORE JR ET AL CASE …

Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections, LA, Amicus Brief, Religious Practice, 2025

Brief • September 3, 2025

Filed under: Religious Freedom, Religious Practices, Religious Freedom/Worship

Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections, LA, Amicus Brief, Religious Practice, 2025 No. 23-1197 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States ________________ DAMON LANDOR, Petitioner, v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND PUBLIC SAFETY, ET AL., Respondents. ________________ ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR …

New Orleans Police Continue Using Facial Recognition  Despite City Restrictions

Article • July 1, 2025 • from CLN July, 2025

Filed under: Police State-Surveillance, Cell-Site-Location Records, Electronic Surveillance, Authorization

New Orleans Police Continue Using Facial Recognition Despite City Restrictions by James Mills The New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD”) has used artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition technology since at least 2018, often bypassing city ordinances designed to limit such surveillance, according to public records, internal emails, and a 2025 Washington Post …

Fifth Circuit: Sentence Enhancement for Maintaining Drug Premises Not Satisfied Solely by Defendant’s Single, Conclusory Statement That He ‘Maintained’ Premises When Record Shows Mere ‘Use’ of Premise...

Article • April 15, 2025 • from CLN May, 2025

Filed under: Premises Liability, Witnesses - Prior Statements/Testimony, Felony Drug Offense, Confessions and Statements of Defendant

Fifth Circuit: Sentence Enhancement for Maintaining Drug Premises Not Satisfied Solely by Defendant’s Single, Conclusory Statement That He ‘Maintained’ Premises When Record Shows Mere ‘Use’ of Premises by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the U.S. District Court …

Bite Marks and Broken Justice: A Louisiana Man’s Life and Death Struggle Against Junk Science

Article • March 15, 2025 • from CLN April, 2025

Filed under: junk science, Wrongful Conviction

Bite Marks and Broken Justice: A Louisiana Man’s Life and Death Struggle Against Junk Science by David Kim by David Kim In a Louisiana courtroom last September, attorney Scott Greene stood before those in attendance and issued a stark warning: The video they were about to see would unsettle them. …

Angola Prisoners Granted Limited Relief From “Farm Line” Work

Article • November 15, 2024 • from CLN November, 2024

Filed under: Prison Labor, Grounds for Relief, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

Angola Prisoners Granted Limited Relief From “Farm Line” Work by "No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails,” Nelson Mandela once wrote. That was also the quote chosen by Judge Brian A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana in …

Louisiana Becomes First State in Nation to Allow Judges to Order Surgical Castration for Sex Offenders

Article • October 1, 2024 • from CLN October, 2024

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Surgery, Sex Offender Treatment, Chemical Castration

Louisiana Becomes First State in Nation to Allow Judges to Order Surgical Castration for Sex Offenders by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In a controversial move among its “get tough on crime” measures advanced in the February special legislative session, Louisiana became the first state to permit surgical …

Louisiana Supreme Court Finds Prosecution Withheld Favorable Impeachment and Exculpatory Evidence in Violation of Brady

Article • August 1, 2024 • from CLN August, 2024

Filed under: Exculpatory No Doctrine, Resentencing, Evidence - Failure to Disclose, Remands/Rehearings/Resentencings

Louisiana Supreme Court Finds Prosecution Withheld Favorable Impeachment and Exculpatory Evidence in Violation of Brady by Matthew Clarke The Supreme Court of Louisiana vacated four 23-year-old convictions and death sentences because the prosecution withheld impeachment and exculpatory evidence in violation of the defendant’s due process rights. In 2001, Darrell J. …

Voice of the Experienced v. Leblanc, LA, Ruling and Order, Conditions of Confinement, 2024

Brief • July 2, 2024

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Exposure to Heat

Voice of the Experienced v. Leblanc, LA, Ruling and Order, Conditions of Confinement, 2024 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 1 of 78 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 2 of 78 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 3 of 78 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 4 of 78 …

Facial Recognition’s Distorted View

Article • May 15, 2024 • from CLN May, 2024

Filed under: False Arrest, Police State-Surveillance

Facial Recognition’s Distorted View by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson There is a tendency within the human brain to settle on the first solution even when another, better solution is available. Automated facial recognition (“AFR”) systems can exacerbate the problem simply by the fact that they are designed to …

One Year of New Orleans Police Department Facial Recognition Data

Article • April 15, 2024 • from CLN April, 2024

Filed under: Racial Profiling, Police State-Surveillance, Electronic Surveillance

One Year of New Orleans Police Department Facial Recognition Data by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson About a year after the New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD”) performed its first facial recognition scan under a new policy that reauthorized its use, they have little to show for it. That is …

Fifth Circuit Affirms Habeas Relief Granted to Capital Defendant Where Counsel Failed to Impeach State’s Pivotal Wit-ness with Available Forensic Evidence

Article • January 15, 2024 • from CLN January, 2024

Filed under: AEDPA, Effective Assistance of Counsel, Counsel - Effective Assistance of, Strickland Standard, Identification Documents/Evidence, Failure to Consult/Investigate/Raise, Trial Strategy, Strickland v. Washington

Fifth Circuit Affirms Habeas Relief Granted to Capital Defendant Where Counsel Failed to Impeach State’s Pivotal Wit-ness with Available Forensic Evidence by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana’s grant of habeas …

Greenwald v. Cantrell, LA, Order and Reasons, Failure to Comply With SORNA, 2023

Brief • December 21, 2023

Filed under: Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act

Greenwald v. Cantrell, LA, Order and Reasons, Failure to Comply With SORNA, 2023 Case 2:22-cv-02371-JTM-DPC Document 98 Filed 12/21/23 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA KENDRA GREENWALD CIVIL ACTION VERSUS NO: 22-2371 LATOYA CANTRELL ET AL. SECTION “H” ORDER AND REASONS Before the Court …

Louisiana Sheriffs Repeatedly and Conveniently Destroy Public Records

Article • December 15, 2023 • from CLN December, 2023

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Public Records Act, Police/Govt Misconduct

Louisiana Sheriffs Repeatedly and Conveniently Destroy Public Records by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart There are 64 sheriffs across the state of Louisiana. Despite what many of them apparently believe, they are subject to certain rules and laws, just like the rest of us. That message just hasn’t reached some …

Smith v. City of Shreveport, LA, Memorandum in Support of Motion to Exclude Expert Testimony of Ernest Burwell, Excessive Force, 2023

Brief • November 16, 2023

Filed under: Excessive Force, Dogs

Smith v. City of Shreveport, LA, Memorandum in Support of Motion to Exclude Expert Testimony of Ernest Burwell, Excessive Force, 2023 Case 5:19-cv-01261-EEF-KDM Document 86-1 Filed 11/16/23 Page 1 of 10 PageID #: 1783 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA SHREVEPORT DIVISION JUANITA SMITH, ET AL VERSUS CITY …

Alex a v. Gov. Edwards, LA, Order Granting Motion for Prelim Injunction, Conditions of Confinement, 2023

Brief • September 14, 2023

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement

Alex a v. Gov. Edwards, LA, Order Granting Motion for Prelim Injunction, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 3:22-cv-00573-SDD-RLB Document 267 09/14/23 Page 1 of 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ALEX A., by and through his guardian, MOLLY SMITH, individually and on behalf of all others similarly …

Alex A. V. Edwards, LA, Westlaw Citation-Order Granting Prelim. Injunction, Solitary Confinement, 2023

Brief • September 14, 2023

Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

Alex A. V. Edwards, LA, Westlaw Citation-Order Granting Prelim. Injunction, Solitary Confinement, 2023 Alex A. by and through Smith v. Edwards, Slip Copy (2023) 2023 WL 5984280 Only the Westlaw citation is currently available. United States District Court, M.D. Louisiana. Morris, Lemuel E. Montgomery, III, Pro Hac Vice, Carly H. …

Alexa A. V. Edwards, LA, Memorandum in Support of Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Regarding Absence of Body-Worn Camera Footage, Body Worn Cameras, 2023

Brief • August 28, 2023

Filed under: Videotaping, Video Cameras

Alexa A. V. Edwards, LA, Memorandum in Support of Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Regarding Absence of Body-Worn Camera Footage, Body Worn Cameras, 2023 Case 3:22-cv-00573-SDD-RLB Document 242-1 08/28/23 Page 1 of 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ALEX A., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civ. Act. …

Alexa A. V. Edwards, LA, Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Regarding Absence of Body-Worn Camera Footage, Body Worn Camera, 2023

Brief • August 28, 2023

Filed under: Videotaping, Electronic Surveillance

Alexa A. V. Edwards, LA, Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Regarding Absence of Body-Worn Camera Footage, Body Worn Camera, 2023 Case 3:22-cv-00573-SDD-RLB Document 242 08/28/23 Page 1 of 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ALEX A., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civ. Act. No. 3:22-CV-00573-SDD-RLB JOHN BEL …