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Suit challenges required minority appointments to Louisiana medical licensing board
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Fri,01/05/24-4:42PM , 256 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A law requiring that some members appointed to the board that licenses and regulates physicians in Louisiana be from minority groups is being challenged in federal court as an unconstitutional racial mandate.
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Teliah Perkins stands in front of the federal appeals court building in New Orleans, May 3, 2023, following a hearing on her lawsuit against two St. Tammany Parish, La., sheriff's deputies stemming from her arrest in May 2020. In an opinion issued Thursday, Nov. 30, a federal appeals court largely sided with the two white Louisiana sheriff's deputies in a lawsuit filed by Perkins, a Black woman, who accused them of using excessive force against her outside her home as they investigated an allegation she had been riding a motorcycle without a helmet. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill, File)

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Court largely sides with Louisiana sheriff's deputies accused in lawsuit of using excessive force
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Wed,12/06/23-12:58PM , 136 Reads
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 her claims that they used excessive force against her as they investigated an allegation she had been riding a motorcycle without a helmet.
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In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Clean Gulf Associates 95-foot response vessel skims crude oil approximately 4 miles southeast off South Pass Louisiana, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. A Unified Command composed of the Coast Guard, Main Pass Oil Gathering Company, LLC, and the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office is coordinating measures to assess, contain and mitigate the impact of the spill. (U.S. Coast Guard/Courtesy Clean Gulf Associates via AP)

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Search is on for pipeline leak after as much as 1.1 million gallons of oil sullies Gulf of Mexico
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Tue,11/21/23-1:58PM , 173 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As much as 1.1 million gallons of oil may have been discharged into the Gulf of Mexico from a pipeline system off Louisiana's southeast coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
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The front of a Tesla Roadster is shown at their showroom in Menlo Park, Calif., Sept. 16, 2008. A federal appeals court in New Orleans says automaker Tesla did not infringe on its workers’ rights to unionize when it ordered employees at a California assembly plant to stop wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the United Auto Workers logo. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)

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Tesla didn't squelch United Auto Workers message when it cracked down on T-shirts, court says
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Thu,11/16/23-4:15PM , 128 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Automaker Tesla did not infringe on its workers’ rights to unionize when it ordered employees at a California assembly plant to stop wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the United Auto Workers logo, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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53°F

Mostly Cloudy

Chance of Rain: 20%
Max Temp: 83°F
Min Temp: 41°F
Feels Like: 51°F
Dew Point: 67°F
Humidity: 81%
Sunrise: 7:09 AM
Sunset: 7:09 PM

Wind Speed: 15 mph
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Wind Gust: 23 mph
Sky Cover: 53%
Visibility: 9 mi
Dew Point: 67°F
Moon Rise: 5:46 AM
Moon Set: 4:58 PM

A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 4am. Mostly cloudy. Low around 41, with temperatures rising to around 49 overnight. North wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

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