The Good Food Institute and Animal Legal Defense Fund has sued on behalf of Tofurky challenging a Louisiana law that would impose fines of up to $500 per day for every plant-based meat product marketed or sold with terms like… Read More ›
Louisiana
Welcome Mr. Alexander home after 38 unjust years in prison
On January 30, Malcolm Alexander became the Innocence Project’s longest serving client to be exonerated when a Jefferson Parish district judge dismissed the rape indictment against him and ordered his release. He spent nearly 38 years in Louisiana’s Angola prison for the crime that… Read More ›
Louisiana eyebrow threaders file lawsuit against pointless licensing requirements
New Orleans, La — August 2, 2016 —Why is the Louisiana Board of Cosmetology requiring eyebrow threaders to spend 750 hours learning cosmetology techniques that threaders do not use? That is the question raised in a new lawsuit filed by… Read More ›