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Understanding First Amendment Rights
Resource to help the public understand how First Amendment rights (freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition) work, and how they can be protected.
Electronic Privacy Information
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. EPIC publishes an award-winning e-mail and online newsletter on civil liberties in the information age.
Pregnancy Discrimination in Employment
Do you feel you have been discriminated against because of your pregnancy? This resource goes over the pregnancy discrimination process in employment situations and the process to file a pregnancy discrimination claim.
Disability Discrimination in Employment
Do you feel you have been discriminated against because of a disability? This resource goes over disability discrimination in employment situations and the process to file a disability discrimination claim.
Equal Pay/Equal Compensation Discrimination in Employment
Do you feel you have been discriminated against in a workplace because you were not given equal pay? This resource goes over equal pay/equal compensation discrimination and the process to file an equal pay/equal compensation claim.
Filing a Charge of Discrimination with the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Discriminated at work because of your race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older) disability, or genetic information? This resource goes over the process to file a discrimination charge with the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.)
Veteran Discrimination in Employment
Do you feel you have been discriminated against because of your status as a veteran? This resource goes over disability and other types of federal and state veteran discrimination in employment situations and the process to file a claim if you have experienced disability discrimination as a veteran.
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA)
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) provides financial assistance to individuals whose employment or self-employment has been lost or interrupted as a direct result of a major disaster declared by the President of the United States.
Legal Guide to Wills
After a person's death - the person's property and responsibilities can get planned for. This resource covers how plans for how the property and responsibilities get divided. This includes how property might get divided among spouses, family, or other persons. This covers how a will can get written in a valid way to give a specific plan for property after death.
Leases and Rental Agreements for Residential Rental Property
This resource covers the process of receiving, understanding, negotiating, and signing a lease between a landlord and tenant. This includes how a tenant can ensure the lease is fair, raise any objections, protect their rights, and deal with other issues with the lease. It can also be about how to understand, modify, or challenge a lease after signing it.
Successions Dictionary
A plain-language guide to legal terms, definitions, and processes used in understanding successions in Louisiana. This includes legal issues around wills, powers of attorney, advance directives, trusts, guardianships, conservatorships, and other estate/succession issues families deal with. Click on each term to see a summary of the definition. Find links to greater in-depth information explaining more complicated issues in successions.
Your Guide to a Louisiana General Property Succession
This resource includes issues around wills, successions, and other estate issues. After a person's death, people must go through the succession process. There are general property successions and small property affidavit successions. Small property affidavit successions are for estates with a valued $125,000 or less. A general property succession is for an estate valued more than $125,000. This explains a general property succession, including how to file a succession.