Current as of August 2026. The Fifth Circuit’s treatment of mandatory detention is actively in flux — see the note on en banc review below — and the Western District’s standing orders are revised administratively. Both should be confirmed before
Buy-Sell Agreements: Protecting Your Louisiana Business When a Partner Wants Out
A downloaded template will form your Louisiana LLC. It will not tell you who owns your partner’s half after his divorce, his death, or the Tuesday he decides he’s done. Louisiana law will tell you — and the answer it
NatureBest Recalled Eighteen Pico de Gallos, Diced Jalapeños and Stuffed Mushrooms Made with the Coast Citrus Peppers. HEB Announced It on August 8. FDA Posted It Today.
NatureBest Precut & Produce LLC, a processor with plants in Missouri City and Houston, Texas, has recalled eighteen refrigerated products made with jalapeño peppers it bought from Coast Citrus Distributors — the San Diego importer at the center of a Salmonella Javiana
Ranking The Circuit Courts By Importance
Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn
Fifth and Ninth Circuits Reject Novel Applications of the Collateral-Order Doctrine to Review District Court Orders Concerning Civil Immunity of Defendants
It’s collateral-order-doctrine week in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, with two courts issuing opinions that dismiss interlocutory appeals of orders ruling on claims of immunity from civil litigation. Both appeals are dismissed on the ground that the immunity at issue
Louisiana Expungement: Clearing a Misdemeanor From Your Record
Search “Louisiana expungement” and half the results still cite a statute that stopped existing more than a decade ago. R.S. 44:9 was repealed by Acts 2014, No. 145, effective August 1, 2014, and its substance moved into the Louisiana Code
Guilty of Misprison of a Felony Admitted by Owner of Insurers
PPP Loan Fraud: A DOJ Enforcement Update on Recent Criminal Cases
As we noted in our recent civil update, the pace of criminal cases related to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud has not slowed. Here are a few significant cases from the last several months.
Two Judges Just Volunteered to Kill a 50-Year-Old Discrimination Standard
An employee’s attempt to end fifty years of discrimination-law precedent went nowhere on appeal. But, two of the three judges who rejected it wrote separately to say they’d take another case just to do it.
TL;DR: A federal appeals court
Louisiana Non-Operator Cannot Escape Post-Assignment Liabilities
In Ankor Energy, LLC et al v. Merit Management Partners I, L.P. et al a Louisiana federal district court addressed a situation commonly encountered by assignors of oil and gas operating interests: You’ve given up the cheese. How do you