Members of several environmental and health groups gathered in the lobby of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office on Wednesday, protesting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline project and asking him to at least do an...
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December 13, 2017, Baton Rouge, LA — Today, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, represented by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), filed suit against the Office of the Governor and...
Sheriff channeled resources to use against Dakota Access Pipeline protests and endorsed company’s Louisiana project December 13, 2017, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, human rights attorneys filed a lawsuit...
...Journal attorney Pamela Spees argues in court documents that the two "are not one and the same." She describes Earth First as a "broad-based social movement" with no formal membership or...
A human rights law firm has sued the Louisiana governor's office and a sheriff's office for records involving a crude oil pipeline proposed across the Atchafalaya (uh-CHAF-uh-LY-uh) Basin. The Center...
A human rights law firm has sued the Louisiana governor's office and a sheriff's office to get records involving a crude oil pipeline proposed to cross the Atchafalaya (uh-CHAF-uh-LY-uh) Basin. The...
A state judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that accused St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne of refusing to release public records related to trips he and some of his deputies took to North...
Wednesday, a St. Charles Parish judge ruled in favor of Sheriff Greg Champagne over a lawsuit filed alleging the sheriff did not completely fulfill a public records request. After hearing testimony...
Law Firms Abused Legal Process by Trying to Sue an Entire Social Movement January 10, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Earth First! Journal served a motion for...
