Court Rules 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.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
In the Founding Era, numerous other states used Vermont’s constitution as a model when drafting their own constitution, including the slavery exceptions. Additionally, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled in 1802 that once crossed over into Vermont, a slave contract from another state was unenforceable.
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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.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The court concluded that the Freedom of Information Act’s deliberative process privilege shielded the redactions from disclosure. The appellate court also found that even if the trial court erred, the error was harmless because the State proved both acts beyond a reasonable doubt. Zepeda , No. 80593-2-I (Wash.
The Crime Report
JULY 13, 2022
His case ended up before the Supreme Court, which issued a 7–2 decision against Scott. ” The Court held that black men and women, free or slaves, were not American citizens. The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to throw out the charge against Plessy, his case ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Crime Report
JULY 14, 2022
That changed this week, with announcements from different parts of the federal bureaucracy aimed at supporting and protecting reproductive health in the new landscape created by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood and Roe v. Wade were set to be overturned.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2021
The shrewd Johnson likely foresaw and intended that outcome — he wanted a vacancy on the Supreme Court so that he could nominate Thurgood Marshall, who was quickly confirmed as the first Black justice. It was the first time the court recognized that gender stereotyping qualifies as unlawful sex discrimination.
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