Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January that DACA recipients' protection from deportation was lawful, but work ...

A Louisiana man set for execution Tuesday has asked the United States Supreme Court to stop it before he dies by nitrous ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the injunction that blocked the execution of ...

The bankruptcy court overseeing Highland Capital Management LP’s Chapter 11 case “exceeded its power” by allowing a reorganization plan that improperly shielded people who aren’t bankrupt from ...

Under the state's new procedure, Hoffman will be strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a ...

"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to reinstate a federal anti-money laundering law at the request of the federal government while ...

In a failed last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers for condemned inmate Jessie Hoffman had argued that ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Baytown police officer Juan Delacruz was protected from liability by qualified ...

The legal landscape surrounding Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) settlements is changing as a result of a split among ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...