JURIST
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving Louisiana’s congressional district map with two Black-majority districts in the six-district state, according to an order issued Monday. The court will hear arguments from two cases consolidated into one. Parties still await a date for oral arguments.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
A US federal appeals court on Friday temporarily lifted a trial court’s blocking of a Louisiana law mandating public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The appellate court’s lifting of the order will last until the court finishes reviewing the defendants’ appeal of the trial court’s order.
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JURIST
MARCH 26, 2025
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s recently redrawn voting map and its two Black-majority districts. “Louisiana would rather not be here,” state attorney J. “Louisiana would rather not be here,” state attorney J.
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 25, 2024
Louisiana’s Republican controlled Legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that would empower legislators to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old can tried as adults. However, earlier this year, the court already sent the four teenagers to adult prisons under charge of murder.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
Louisiana’s political landscape faces a critical deadline as a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday set a January 15 deadline for the state legislature to draw up a new congressional map. The post US appeals court sets date for Louisiana to draw new congressional map appeared first on JURIST - News.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Monday that the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) violated the US Constitution’s First Amendment when it tweeted several posts that were not “germane” to the legal profession.
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