The Louisiana Supreme Court has officially extended its Gustav-related closure through the end of this week, and will reopen on Monday, September 8. By court rule, all filings due during the closure-period will now fall due five days following the period of closure.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has officially extended its closure through the end of the week and will reopen on Monday, September 8. The Court has also extended the automatic filing extension for documents due during the closure-period to September 10, 2008.

Both courts made it through Gustav with no damage, and I believe that both are within those small portions of the power grid that regained power yesterday. Indeed, other than wind damage to trees in the area, the rebuilding city of New Orleans fared remarkably well, and even the Corps of Engineers’ floodwall repairs were demonstrated to the nation to have held up successfully under a prolonged attack of surge up the Mississippi-River Gulf Outlet and into the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (the “Industrial Canal”) (seemingly much to the chagrin of the ever-error-prone national media). In case you have not gotten the memos we have been sending out over the past couple of years, New Orleans is most decidedly back and open for business.