Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has suspended the state’s May 16 congressional primary following the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 29 action involving the state’s congressional map, setting off immediate consequences for election administration and renewed urgency in the underlying redistricting fight.

The move underscores a recurring reality in voting-rights litigation: court rulings do not stay confined to briefing schedules and appellate dockets.

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 17, 2026 handed Chevron a significant procedural victory in long-running Louisiana coastal-damage litigation, unanimously ruling that the company may pursue removal to federal court in a major suit brought by Plaquemines Parish. The decision does not resolve the merits of the parish’s land-loss and environmental damage claims, but it strengthens a key defense strategy in a wave of cases targeting oil and gas operators for decades of coastal erosion and wetlands degradation.

The case, Chevron USA Incorporated, et al., Petitioners v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, et al., has been closely watched because Louisiana’s coastal suits have produced enormous exposure risk.

The U.S. Supreme Court has wiped away a Fifth Circuit ruling that upheld a copyright verdict against Grande Communications Networks, sending the case back for reconsideration in light of the Court’s recent decision narrowing when internet service providers can be held liable for subscribers’ piracy. The move does not end the dispute, but it is an important reset in one of the closely watched lines of cases testing secondary copyright liability against broadband providers.

In practical terms, the justices granted, vacated, and remanded the case, directing the Fifth Circuit to take another look under a new liability framework.