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/PRNewswire/ -- This week, national trial firm Reid Collins & Tsai LLP ("Reid Collins") obtained a jury verdict on behalf of client Mr. DeShaun Johnson in its...

A court ruled the deputies didn't use excessive force when they pinned a woman’s face to the pavement of her driveway during a 2020 arrest. 

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A federal appeals court has largely sided with two white Louisiana sheriff`s deputies in a lawsuit filed by a Black woman, rejecting

The officers arrested Teliah Perkins outside her home in 2020 while investigating an allegation she had been riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

A federal appeals court has largely sided with two white Louisiana sheriff's deputies in a lawsuit filed by a Black woman, rejecting her claims that they used excessive force against her as they investigated an allegation she had been riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two white Louisiana sheriff's deputies who forced a Black woman facedown to the ground in 2020 as they investigated an allegation that

Two Louisiana sheriff’s deputies asked for a lawsuit filed by a Black woman forced onto the ground during a traffic stop to be dismissed.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two white Louisiana sheriff’s deputies who forced a Black woman facedown to the ground in 2020 as they investigated an allegation that she had been riding a motorcycle without a helmet asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit the woman filed against them.

The ACLU is partnering with 65 law firms and 27 corporations to bring police abuse suits in Louisiana, a state often described as a "legal aid desert." Through the project, dubbed Justice Lab, pro bono attorneys have filed 40 civil suits challenging local and state police for excessive force, racial profiling and unlawful arrest or search.

Teliah Perkins also alleges two New Orleans deputies used excessive force on her son by shoving and threatening him with a taser.