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    The Supreme Court of Louisiana (French: Cour suprême de Louisiane; Spanish: Corte Suprema de Luisiana) is the highest court and court of last resort in...
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  • In the United States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters...
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  • Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the Eighth Amendment's Cruel...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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  • Mckesson v. Doe (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court)
    the lower federal court (the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) to seek clarification of state law from the Louisiana Supreme Court. At issue was whether...
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  • Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires...
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    January 23, 2024, the Louisiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments on appeal of this case. On April 26, 2024, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in favor...
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    Edward Douglass White (category Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court)
    was an American politician and jurist. White, a native of Louisiana, was a U.S. Supreme Court justice for 27 years, first as an associate justice from...
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  • Following is a list of justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court and their years of service. (three judges) John Bartow Prevost 1804–1806 Ephraim Kirby...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869...
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  • Plessy v. Ferguson (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Fuller Court)
    and the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld Ferguson's ruling on appeal. Plessy then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. In May 1896, the Supreme Court issued...
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    the Gaines cases appeared before the Supreme Court seventeen times and the Louisiana state and federal court at least seventy times. The Gaines cases...
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  • Montgomery v. Louisiana, 577 U.S. 190 (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that its previous ruling in Miller v. Alabama...
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  • Perry v. Louisiana, 498 U.S. 38 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case over the legality of forcibly medicating a death row inmate with a mental...
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  • John L. Weimer (category Chief Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court)
    served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana since 2021. Weimer received a Juris Doctor from Louisiana State University in 1980. In 1995...
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    courts, the Justice of the Peace courts, the mayor's courts, the city courts, and the parish courts. The chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court...
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  • Hans v. Louisiana, 134 U.S. 1 (1890), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court determining that the Eleventh Amendment prohibits a citizen of...
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    case reporter and courts themselves decide which decisions are published. Decisions of the Louisiana Supreme Court and Louisiana Court of Appeal are available...
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    of Louisiana is defined under the Constitution and law of Louisiana and is composed of the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal...
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    only four court cases dealing with consensual lesbian activity in the country, in State v. Young et al. (1966), the Louisiana Supreme Court unanimously...
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  • Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522 (1975), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court which held that systematically excluding women from a venire...
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    districts. As with the Louisiana Supreme Court, the regular judicial terms on the courts of appeal are ten years. The courts of appeal are housed in...
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  • William J. Crain (category Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court)
    the Louisiana Supreme Court since 2019. Crain is a 1979 graduate of Bogalusa High School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Louisiana State...
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  • courts of Louisiana Louisiana Supreme Court Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal (5 circuits) Louisiana District Courts (42 districts) Federal courts located...
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    An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of...
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  • Glass v. Louisiana, 471 U.S. 1080 (1985), was a case denied for hearing by the United States Supreme Court in 1985. The case is famous for Justice Brennan's...
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  • Srinivasan on US Supreme Court?". The Economic Times. 2016-02-14. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2023-10-16. "Charles F. Lettow". US Court of Federal Claims...
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    The demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the...
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  • associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court Ebenezer Thompson (1737–1802), associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Floyd Thompson (lawyer)...
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    Republican elected to Louisiana state senate since Reconstruction (1976–80) Mack Barham (1924–2006), Judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court Danny Barker (1909–1994)...
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