Kean Miller Hawthorne D’Armond McCowan & Jarman has established the “Kean Miller Relief Fund” in association with the Capital Area United Way. The partners in Baton Rouge’s largest law firm seeded the fund with an initial donation of $50,000.00. The announcement was made at a September 8 meeting of the Capital Area United Way and…

On September 7, 2005, the Conservation Commissioner issued a memorandum authorizing certain exceptions to the rules of the Commission which deal with oil and gas production activities. The memorandum applies only to operations in the eight worst-affected parishes: Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, Terrebonne, and Washington. However, the memorandum states that the…

Kean Miller Hawthorne D’Armond McCowan & Jarman (Kean Miller) donated $10,000 today to help fund the initial development of the United Way Command Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The United Way Command Center has been established to efficiently and effectively meet the human service needs of Hurricane Katrina victims in the 10 parishes served by…

Here are some links to sites offering avenues to help and hurricane relief information:

The American Red Cross is taking donations to help the thousands of
victims at http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html.

Following is a list of other Web sites offering disaster relief
Information –

Federal Emergency Management Agency
Phone: 1-800-621-FEMA
http://www.fema.gov

Louisiana Homeland Security
http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov

Louisiana…

The proliferation of laws and regulations related to Medicare, Medicaid, and physician licensing make many physicians unsure about what business decisions they may make or arrangements they may enter without taking risks too large to justify the business advantages. With the advent of more aggressive regulation, physicians are also concerned about the difficulty involved in…

That question was one of several issues addressed by EPA in its review of a Petition for Objection filed by the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (“LEAN”) on Title V permits issued to ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge Refinery. The Clean Air Act requires that a state agency give reasonable “opportunity for public comment and a hearing” on…

If the terms “removal” and “fraudulent joinder” pique your interest, you will want to familiarize yourself with the recent United States Fifth Circuit Ruling in Boone v. Citigroup, Inc., ___ F.3d ___ (5th Cir. 2005), 2005 WL 1581091 (5th Cir. (Miss.)).

In Boone, the Fifth Circuit explained its holding in its earlier en banc opinion…