Michael Kunzelman

December 17, 2010 | Daily Report Online

NEW ORLEANS AP - Transocean Ltd. must turn over a batch of safety records to a government panel probing the deadly rig explosion that spawned the massive Gulf oil spill, a federal judge ruled Friday.Transocean, which owned the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon rig, had balked at providing some of the safety records for its other rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to the panel of Coast Guard and industry regulators.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

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October 31, 2007 | Daily Report Online

By Michael Kunzelman

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November 10, 2011 | Daily Report Online

NEW ORLEANS AP - Louisiana state prisons can't justify banning inmates from receiving copies of a newspaper published by the Nation of Islam, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's ruling that the David Wade Correctional Center must deliver copies of The Final Call newspaper to Henry Leonard, a convicted murderer.

By Michael Kunzelman

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June 24, 2010 | Daily Report Online

NEW ORLEANS AP - A federal judge who overturned a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed after the Gulf oil spill refused Thursday to put his ruling on hold while the government appeals.The Justice Department had asked U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman to delay his ruling until the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans can review it.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

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April 09, 2007 | Daily Report Online

NEW ORLEANS AP - After Hurricane Katrina demolished Robert and Merryl Weiss' home, the couple were paid hundred of thousands of dollars by their insurance company. But they say it isn't enough.Jury selection was to start Monday in the Weisses' lawsuit against Allstate Insurance Co., only the second Katrina insurance case to be tried so far in a Louisiana federal court.

By Michael Kunzelman

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March 09, 2007 | Daily Report Online

NEW ORLEANS AP - Prosecutors created a ''mess'' by compelling three of the seven police officers charged in deadly bridge shootings in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath to testify before the grand jury that later indicted them, the judge presiding over the case said Friday.Attorneys for Sgt. Kenneth Bowen and officers Mike Hunter Jr.

By Michael Kunzelman

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November 28, 2012 | Daily Report Online

BP rig supervisor said Wednesday that he is innocent of manslaughter in the deaths of 11 workers in the 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig that started the spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

By Michael Kunzelman

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February 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

NATCHEZ, Miss. AP - The state attorney general said late Wednesday that a dispute in which State Farm Fire Casualty Co. accused him of violating an agreement involving its handling of Hurricane Katrina claims has been resolved.State Farm officials were pleased with developments, a company spokesman said, but called Hood's announcement "premature.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

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April 27, 2010 | Daily Report Online

NEW ORLEANS AP - The former director of the science program for Texas' public schools asked a federal appeals court Monday to revive a lawsuit over her firing for forwarding an e-mail about a forum opposed to teaching creationism.The agency that runs Texas public schools argued that Christina Castillo Comer's e-mail broke its policy of neutrality toward any potentially controversial issue, including creationism.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

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April 09, 2008 | Daily Report Online

NEW ORLEANS AP-Louisiana's attorney general has withdrawn a multimillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit his predecessor filed on his final day in office against drug-maker Amgen Inc.Former Attorney General Charles Foti hired several private lawyers who had contributed to his failed re-election campaign to sue Amgen over an alleged pricing scheme.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

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