Kevin Mcgill

September 15, 2023 | Daily Business Review

State attorneys said during arguments before U.S. District Judge Darrel Papillion that participation in the National Flood Insurance Program requires that local governments adopt building-elevation policies and flood-control efforts that often require taxes.

By Kevin McGill

3 minute read

May 30, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Ramos v. Louisiana outlawed nonunanimous jury convictions as unconstitutional, with justices on the 6-3 majority acknowledging the practice as a vestige of racism from the era of laws legalizing racial segregation.

By Kevin McGill | The Associated Press

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March 14, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"The first message is, don't do it because you could hurt someone; you could kill someone," Don Cazayoux, one of the family's attorneys, said in a phone interview. The legal exposure, he said, adds to the points parents should make in warning their college-bound students about the dangers of hazing.

By Kevin McGill | The Associated Press

3 minute read

October 04, 2022 | Texas Lawyer

Fifth Circuit panel members appeared skeptical of the claim that the state had no authority whatsoever to restrict church gatherings in arguments recorded as they were held Monday in Fort Worth, Texas. But they raised the question of whether Spell's church was unfairly restricted, compared with other public gathering places, such as shopping mall food courts.

By Kevin McGill | The Associated Press

3 minute read

October 03, 2022 | Texas Lawyer

At one time, enforcement was blocked nationwide under a ruling by a Georgia-based federal judge. But an appeals court in Atlanta narrowed the scope of that ruling to the seven states that had sued in that case.

By Kevin McGill | The Associated Press 

3 minute read

July 10, 2019 | Texas Lawyer

Attorneys debate whether a little, any or all of the Affordable Care Act should be declared unconstitutional.

By Kevin McGill and Rebecca Santana

5 minute read

July 12, 2017 | Daily Business Review

A Louisiana flood protection board has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive its lawsuit seeking to make oil, gas and pipeline companies pay for decades of damage to coastal wetlands, hoping to reverse losses in the lower federal courts.

By Kevin McGill

5 minute read

September 03, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge in New Orleans upheld Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriages on Wednesday, a rare loss for gay marriage supporters who had won more than 20 consecutive rulings overturning bans in other states.

By KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press

3 minute read

February 26, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge has refused to halt payments from a BP fund to compensate deckhands and other seafood workers harmed financially by the 2010 Gulf oil spill.

By Kevin McGill

1 minute read

February 12, 2014 | Law.com

A federal jury has convicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on charges that he accepted bribes, free trips and other gratuities from contractors in exchange for helping them secure millions of dollars in city work while he was in office.

By Kevin McGill

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