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.

U.S. Western District Judges Robert Summerhays and David Joseph, both nominated by President Trump, sided with the plaintiffs. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Carl Stewart, nominated by ...

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.

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.

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – Louisiana’s proposed congressional map that created a second Black-majority district has been thrown out by two federal court judges.

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 ...