Federal judges throw out Louisiana congressional map with second Black District U.S. Western District Judges Robert Summerhays and David Joseph, both nominated by President Trump, sided with the ...

It was a momentous occasion for Judge Edwards as he became the first Black judge to serve the United States Western District Court of Louisiana.

A federal three-judge panel has thrown out Louisiana's new congressional map that created a second Black district, leaving the state's political boundaries in question with the November election ...

U.S. District Judges David Joseph and Robert Summerhays, ... That suit was filed in western Louisiana. A three-judge panel heard arguments in that case and ruled 2-1 against the map.

NEW ORLEANS — A new congressional district map giving Louisiana a second majority-Black House district was rejected Tuesday by a panel of three federal judges, fueling new uncertainty about ...

A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from considering disparate environmental harms in Louisiana in its enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, mak… ...

Chief U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana appears before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., for his nomination hearing on Nov. 1, 2017.

In the ruling on Tuesday, Judges David C. Joseph and Robert R. Summerhays, both of the Western District of Louisiana, acknowledged that factors other than race, like protecting certain incumbents ...

In a permanent injunction issued late Thursday, U.S. District Judge James Cain Jr. of the Western District of Louisiana said EPA can no longer enforce “disparate-impact requirements” under ...

Louisiana's congressional district lines are left in question less than 7 months before the election after federal court spiked second Black district. ... U.S. Western District Judges Robert ...

A federal three-judge panel has thrown out Louisiana's new congressional map that created a second Black district, leaving the state's political boundaries in question with the November election ...