The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has its first black chief judge. Monday is Judge Carl E. Stewart’s first day as chief judge of the New Orleans-based appeals court. The Shreveport resident succeeds Judge Edith H. Jones, who stepped down from the post.   Click here for full story.

NEW ORLEANS — On a day when the judiciary traditionally comes together for a blessing, there were new signs of divisiveness on the Louisiana’s highest court. It’s all part of the ongoing dispute over who should be the Louisiana Supreme Court’s next chief justice. Justice Bernette Johnson has served on the state’s highest bench since […]

If Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Bernette Johnson’s colleagues thought she would sit quietly and let one of her less-experienced colleagues become Louisiana’s next chief justice, well, they just weren’t thinking…[Read More]