Then Advocate editor-in-chief and writer testified editorial was not part of agenda against Jefferson Davis Hughes III A jury on Monday awarded $300,000 to a Louisiana supreme court justice over a 2019 editorial by the state’s largest newspaper in a rare defamation trial involving an elected publ...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/25/louisiana-supreme-court-defamation-advocate-newspaper)