U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier, who is presiding over the BP civil trial, attended a seminar sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute. Critics say these privately funded conferences serve judges a steady dose of free-market, anti-regulation lectures that could influence their rulings.
Mayor Landrieu will paint a grim picture of financial impacts if city is forced to cover costs of the federal consent decree.
Providers of prison phone services have been fighting hard to reverse the cut in rates and fees approved by the Public Service Commission in December
John Sens, who used to be purchasing director, admits to taking kickbacks for rigging contract bids.
Now it appears that there may have been more serious and systemic problems during Letten’s term than we ever knew.
A committee's business today was to winnow the dozen bids for the monitor's job down to a lucky five.
The city’s numerous new anti-violence and anti-crime initiatives are driving the spike in cases that involve multiple defendants, the public defenders office says. One recent case had 10 co-defendants.
Orleans Parish Prison plan doesn't include space for mentally ill; sheriff proposing 600-bed expansion.
Sens and Hoffman “engaged in a rigged bidding process in which real bids would be submitted, along with phony bids, to give the appearance of competition.”
