Court Decisions Drafting Louisiana 
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 24, 2025
Share It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisianas latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to reinstate a congressional map, enacted by the Louisiana legislature last year, that created a second majority-Black district.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 24, 2025
Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The court concluded that the Freedom of Information Act’s deliberative process privilege shielded the redactions from disclosure. The court rejected DLNR’s argument that a 2017 Hawaii Supreme Court decision requiring environmental review for aquarium fishing only applied to fishing with fine-meshed nets.
The Crime Report
JULY 13, 2022
Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to throw out the charge against Plessy, his case ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mangino.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 13, 2022
I think the story of the Gilded Age – Harlan’s time on the court – is better understood through the actions of the Supreme Court, which voided antitrust laws, declared the income tax unconstitutional, blocked labor reforms, knocked out civil rights protections, refused to enforce voting rights, and approved the legal architecture of segregation.
The Crime Report
JUNE 23, 2023
President Jimmy Carter in January 1977 pardoned hundreds of thousands of Vietnam-era draft dodgers President Ronald Reagan in April 1981 pardoned two crooked FBI agents who ordered the break-ins of the homes of suspected radicals to gather incriminating evidence against them.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 1, 2025
For example, the Trump administration has agreed to drop a critical environmental justice case against the petrochemical company Denka for carcinogenic air pollution from its plants in Louisianas Cancer Alley. Local organizations continue to mobilize to protect the health and wellbeing of disadvantaged communities and communities of color.
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