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Dillard Department Stores, parent company of the Dillard’s chain, is suing Louisiana’s state economic development department and Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson, alleging Pierson and LED reneged on a verbal agreement to pay the company $3.5 million. 

A large number of NCAA student athletes, including many at LSU, are from outside of the U.S., meaning visa restrictions may prevent them from taking advantage of the same NIL rules afforded their teammates.

An out-of-state business today sued Louisiana and several parishes to challenge the state's patchwork approach to collecting sales taxes, days after voters rejected a constitutional change that would have centralized those tax collections in a single board.

The Louisiana insurance commissioner is seeking a government takeover of two regional insurance companies that are facing insolvency due to losses from Hurricane Ida to ensure the company’s policyholders are paid what they are owed, officials say.

Some of the practices the legal profession adopted to mitigate the risk of spreading COVID-19 may continue to be common after the pandemic is over, attorneys say.

Its private employer vaccine mandate on hold, the Biden administration wants the multiple challenges to its workplace rule—including Louisiana Secretary of State Jeff Landry’s—consolidated in a single federal court and has asked for a decision by early next week.

Companies that violate President Joe Biden’s call to ensure their employees are either vaccinated against COVID-19 or tested weekly could face fines of $13,600 per employee and another $136,000 for “willful violations.”

An LSU AgCenter researcher at the center of a Title IX scandal has applied for promotion to full professor, university officials confirm.

Given recent events and the ongoing Title IX scandal at LSU, one has to wonder why an AgCenter professor is still employed by the university?

Louisiana lawmakers are trying to wade into a political thicket they haven't braved in nearly 25 years: the redrawing of maps setting the state's Supreme Court districts.