From wwltv.com : Access barred to LSU hospital tour 09:27 PM CST on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press Video: Wat...

Watch Rep. John LaBruzzo defend his sterilization proposal on CNN : Friends in Louisiana and Beyond: Well, here we are again, our wonderfu...

This blog is cross-posted at truthout.org . Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He can...

Friends: Eariler today, the FEMA Director announced the federal government would not be providing financial assistance to Gulf Coast Gustav ...

So we made it! After 10.5 hours on the road, and much humor during several incredibly long stops along IH-59, at about 12:30a.m. today we m...

*Over the course of this week Justice Roars will feature blogs from Tracie Washington and Jacques Morial as they represent the Louisiana Jus...

Most of the local coverage of the recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey on Kartina survivors revolved around a superficial theme of "s...

Healthcare initiatives were mostly low key, status quo Reporting and analysis by K. Brad Ott **This report was previously excerpted in the J...

This Op-Ed by Richard Moe, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation appeared in the July 3 edition of the Times-Piayune. ...

As of Tuesday June 17, 2008, Renaissance Village, once the FEMA's largest trailer park, officially closed, leaving its residents to find...

Stress, fear of homelessness are a volatile mix TIMES PICAYUNE Saturday, June 07, 2008 Re: "Trailers in N.O. must go by July 1," P...

Early this morning, Eric Minshew , a 49 year old mentally ill FEMA trailer resident living in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans, was ...

Click image to enlarge Victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita are being evicted from their trailers all along the Mississippi Gulf Coast . ...

The Federal Emergency Managment Agency (FEMA) is evicting trailer residents in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, regardless of the fact t...

This past week was busy in New Orleans. Just as the rain came down in a big way on Thursday afternoon, two pivotal decisions for healthcare ...

This Friday, May 23, we will convene to discuss our current litigation to replace the care that was lost with the closure of Charity Hospita...

Firm to determine whether Charity can be restored Independent study will examine building Wednesday, May 14, 2008 By Jan Moller The Times Pi...

LJI's staff attorney, Lauren Bartlett, has written an article published by the April 2008 issue of American Jurist . Her article, "...

The Louisiana Justice Institute and the Children's Defense Fund released a report on the dire circumstances of residents still living in...

Louisiana Justice Institute (LJI), in partnership with the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), will release their public report on the dire circu...