JURIST

JULY 13, 2022

Louisiana Judge Donald Johnson Tuesday granted a petition filed by reproductive health providers against the state’s abortion ban, the latest in a back-and-forth case set in motion after the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Johnson granted a temporary restraining order against state laws designed to take effect after Roe v.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

“The horseshoe theory of law: How Judge Reinhardt made a comeback in the Louisiana redistricting litigation.” ” The post “The horseshoe theory of law: How Judge Reinhardt made a comeback in the Louisiana redistricting litigation.” ” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Louisiana State Bar violated lawyers’ free speech rights, appeals court rules”: Daniel Wiessner of Reuters has this report. Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Louisiana Lawyer’s Rights Violated by Wellness, LGBTQ+ Posts.” ” You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S.

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JURIST

JUNE 9, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday announced it was investigating the Louisiana State Police (LSP) for a pattern of “racially discriminatory policing.” The AP found extensive body cam footage of alleged police brutality, disproportionality aimed at Black and Hispanic Louisiana residents.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The post Louisiana Lawyer Gets In Trouble Over Less Than Legal Side Gig appeared first on Above the Law. There are dope clients, and then there are dope clients.

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JURIST

JUNE 12, 2022

A US federal judge Friday ordered the state of Louisiana to pay a USD 3.8 million settlement for legal fees to the Center for Reproductive Rights and law firms who challenged the state’s abortion restrictions on doctors in June Medical Services LLC et al v. The post US federal judge orders Louisiana to pay $3.8M

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EvidenceProf Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, PAUL M. HEBERT LAW CENTER seeks to hire pre-tenure or tenured lateral faculty members in constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, federal courts and procedure, evidence, and professional responsibility. Applicants should have a J.D. from an ABA-accredited.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2022

Plessy was arrested in 1892 for deliberately violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, which required “separate but equal” train car accommodations for Blacks and whites. His action was also supported by the railroad from which bought his ticket, as the law would require them to buy additional train cars.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2023

I spent more than 40 years in the Louisiana penal system—from December 1965 to April 2006. I was transferred from the “parish jail” to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in November 1966. Henderson which held that Louisiana death row inmates were constitutionally entitled to outdoor exercise periods. In the wake of Sinclair v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont Tuesday voted on Election Day ballot measures to end the practice of enslavement after criminal conviction. Louisiana did not. ” Because 61 percent of voters said they did not support the amendment, the slavery loophole will remain in Louisiana. ” 76.49

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2021

The Louisiana Senate voted 20-17 Monday to lift certain penalties for people charged with possessing small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, specifically noting that they should not be jailed. The proposed law seeks to reduce those penalties. The bill now moves to the desk of Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning declined to put a Louisiana trial seeking compensation for the “existential threat” posed by coastal land loss on hold while the defendants in the case, a group of oil companies, seek review of a state court decision rejecting their request to transfer the case. There were no recorded dissents.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Is a federal appeals court in Louisiana ‘testing the boundary’ of the conservative legal movement or just reflecting where the Supreme Court is moving the law?” “Too conservative for the Supreme Court? The nation’s most right-leaning appeals court draws scrutiny. ” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 23, 2022

“In Louisiana, an abortion clinic anxiously waits for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling; Louisiana’s ‘trigger law’ could immediately ban abortion if Roe is overturned”: Julie O’Donoghue and Piper Hutchinson of the Louisiana Illuminator have this report.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

The Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that two Planned Parenthood centers may pursue their claim to make Louisiana’s Department of Health “promptly rule” on one of the center’s applications for a license to operate as an abortion clinic, finding that the case fell under an exception to sovereign immunity.

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HowAppealing

JULY 18, 2022

“With abortion access on the line in Louisiana, lawyers debate in court if ban is ambiguous”: Sam Karlin of The Advocate of Baton Rouge has this report.

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HowAppealing

JULY 21, 2022

“Judge sides with Louisiana clinics in fight over ban, keeping abortion access alive for now; Don Johnson of the 19th Judicial District has granted a preliminary injunction blocking trigger law”: Sam Karlin of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has this report.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

Their cases are about the failure of justice in the Louisiana criminal justice system. I know Louisiana justice. Both were committed to the Louisiana prison system with life sentences. Henry was committed to the Louisiana State Penitentiary when the prison—more commonly known as Angola—was the “bloodiest prison in America.”.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 10, 2022

Justice Department is opening a federal civil rights “pattern-or-practice” probe into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has a pattern of looking the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, reports the Associated Press.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 7, 2022

“Louisiana Top Court Asked for Guidance in Remington Rifle Suit”: Julie Steinberg of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A recent look into the Louisiana prison system finds about 200 inmates are held beyond their scheduled release dates each month. The practice of “overdetention” is endemic in Louisiana and costs the state $2.8 McNeal is one of the thousands of Louisiana people held each year past their release date.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A Union Parish, Louisiana, grand jury Thursday indicted five Louisiana State Police (LSP) officers relating to the 2019 death of Black driver Ronald Greene in police custody. Greene died on a roadside in northeast Louisiana, and authorities initially ruled that his death was the result of a car crash.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 27, 2022

“Abortions to resume in Louisiana, after judge issues temporary injunction against state ban”: Blake Paterson of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 26, 2022

Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ) will pause its plan to move youth from a juvenile facility to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, until at least Sep. The lawsuit challenges the office and Louisiana Gov.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 19, 2022

“‘I’m Carrying This Baby Just to Bury It’: The Struggle to Decode Abortion Laws; Louisiana doctors fearful of running afoul of new abortion bans in post-Roe America gave a pregnant woman a devastating diagnosis, but not an abortion”: Ava Sasani and Emily Cochrane of The New York Times have this report.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Louisiana legislators are considering a bill to strictly limit the use of solitary for young people, after hearing vivid testimony of its impact on those who have experienced punishment that one expert called child abuse, reports NBC News.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Louisiana has done little to protect abused women in the face of one of the nation’s highest levels of female homicide, a statewide audit has found. The audit found shortages of shelter beds and inconsistent enforcement of laws intended to protect domestic abuse victims, reports The Advocate.

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MAY 10, 2022

The Louisiana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in the case of Reginald Reddick, who is serving life in prison in Louisiana for second-degree murder, even though two jurors at his 1997 trial found him not guilty, reports The Guardian. Almost anywhere else in the country, he would have been acquitted.

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EvidenceProf Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, PAUL M. HEBERT LAW CENTER seeks to hire tenure-track or tenured faculty in a variety of areas, including, but not limited to, faculty who have expertise in business law, civil & comparative law, civil procedure, constitutional law,

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2022

Lawmakers in Louisiana have passed new restrictions on the use of solitary confinement in juvenile facilities which will go into effect August 1, the first time that lawmakers in the “world’s incarceration capital” have put limits on solitary confinement for youth, ProPublica reports.

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LegalReader

JUNE 10, 2022

A Louisiana-based district court will consider the plaintiffs' suggestions on how to bring an Angola-area penitentiary accused of abusing disabled inmates into compliance with federal law.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 23, 2021

“Defending Louisiana’s anti-abortion laws cost millions, and taxpayers will foot the bill”: Mark Ballard of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana recently had this report. And Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Louisiana Abortion Providers Ask for Nearly $9 Million in Fees.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Before 2020 , Louisiana and Oregon were the only states that did not require unanimous jury verdicts for criminal convictions. The concurrence focused on Oregon’s nonunanimous jury law history. As a result of the ruling, Louisiana is now the only state that permits split jury verdicts in criminal cases.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 7, 2023

Houston-based law firm McClenny, Moseley & Associates has been suspended from practice in a Louisiana federal court because of a judge’s concerns about its purported…

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2022

The states of Texas and Louisiana brought a lawsuit challenging this memorandum, which led to US District Court for the Southern District of Texas Judge Drew Tipton vacating the memorandum in June. Then, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the Biden administration’s request for a stay pending appeal.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On June 11, 2021, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed into law Act 176 making substantial changes to Louisiana's procedural rules governing answers and the taking of default judgments.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2024

The US Supreme Court Monday declined a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson, effectively allowing him to be sued by a Louisiana police officer for negligence. The case at bar, DeRay Mckesson v. ” Both the district court and the Fifth Circuit looked to NAACP v.

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